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1782625Rescue Partyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/rescue-party/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/532818/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638335191750800000251349MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>"An ode to the power of art and comics to capture a moment and to crystallize the wish for a better world."Franoise Mouly, <em>The New Yorker</em></p><p>More than 140 single-page comics from artists the world over, documenting humanitys retreat into COVID-19 lockdown and imagining our eventual, boisterous reemergence, gathered by the founder of the annual Comic Arts Brooklyn festival and owner of the beloved indie comics shop Desert Island</p><p>On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyns celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had been shuttered indefinitely, and cities all over the world had been locked down as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.</p><p>We all need something positive to think about, and a lot of us have time on our hands, the post read. Who wants to make something?</p><p>What happened next was nothing short of remarkable, as hundreds of short comics from more than fifty countries poured into Desert Islands inbox. Some came from notable cartoonists. Most, astonishingly, came from amateur artists just looking for an outlet to create in the midst of tragedyfor a chance to join the rescue party that leads us out of isolation.</p><p>Collected in this book are more than 140 notable entries from the Rescue Party project, capturing the loneliness and the surprising comforts of early lockdown; the mania of its middle days as the mind begins to fray; and the many paths forward toward humanitys future, as we re-enter a world wracked with injustice.</p><p>Bracing, beautiful, and conspicuously optimistic, <em>Rescue Party</em> is part graphic diary, part time capsule, and part field guide: a grassroots project that tells the collective story of lockdown from a chorus of global voices and charts a course toward a more just future.</p>...1755280Rescue Party251349https://www.gandhi.com.mx/rescue-party/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/532818/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638335191750800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780593316818_W3siaWQiOiIyNjVhYzllYi01YWRjLTRkNGUtOTVlZi0xOGU0ODQxYjkzNjgiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMyNywiZGlzY291bnQiOjc1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780593316818_<p><strong>Over a hundred page-long comics from around the world, documenting humanitys retreat into COVID-19 lockdown and imagining our eventual, boisterous reemergence, from the founder of the Brooklyn Comic Arts festival and owner of beloved indie comic shop Desert Island.</strong></p><p>On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyns celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then, the shop had shuttered indefinitely, and the worlds major cities had locked down as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold:</p><p>"We all need something positive to think about, and a lot of us have time on our hands," the post read. "Who wants to make something?"</p><p>Hundreds of short comics from over fifty countries poured into Desert Islands inbox. Some came from notable cartoonists. Most, astonishingly, came from amateur artists just looking for an outlet to create in the midst of tragedyfor a chance to join the rescue party that leads us out of isolation.</p><p>Collected here are one hundred fifty notable entries from the <em>Rescue Party</em> project, capturing the loneliness and the surprising comforts of early lockdown; the mania of its middle days as the mind begins to fray; and the branching paths of humanitys future, as we re-enter a world wracked with injustice.</p><p>Bracing, beautiful, and conspicuously optimistic, <em>Rescue Party</em> is part graphic diary, part time capsule, and part field guide: a grassroots project that tells the collective story of lockdown from a chorus of global voices, and charts a course to a more just future.</p>...(*_*)9780593316818_<p>"An ode to the power of art and comics to capture a moment and to crystallize the wish for a better world."Franoise Mouly, <em>The New Yorker</em></p><p>More than 140 single-page comics from artists the world over, documenting humanitys retreat into COVID-19 lockdown and imagining our eventual, boisterous reemergence, gathered by the founder of the annual Comic Arts Brooklyn festival and owner of the beloved indie comics shop Desert Island</p><p>On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyns celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had been shuttered indefinitely, and cities all over the world had been locked down as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.</p><p>We all need something positive to think about, and a lot of us have time on our hands, the post read. Who wants to make something?</p><p>What happened next was nothing short of remarkable, as hundreds of short comics from more than fifty countries poured into Desert Islands inbox. Some came from notable cartoonists. Most, astonishingly, came from amateur artists just looking for an outlet to create in the midst of tragedyfor a chance to join the rescue party that leads us out of isolation.</p><p>Collected in this book are more than 140 notable entries from the Rescue Partyproject, capturing the loneliness and the surprising comforts of early lockdown; the mania of its middle days as the mind begins to fray; and the many paths forward toward humanitys future, as we re-enter a world wracked with injustice.</p><p>Bracing, beautiful, and conspicuously optimistic, <em>Rescue Party</em> is part graphic diary, part time capsule, and part field guide: a grassroots project that tells the collective story of lockdown from a chorus of global voices and charts a course toward a more just future.</p>...9780593316818_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_1b017048-aa34-39a5-a137-4216a4194c4a_9780593316818;9780593316818_9780593316818InglésMéxico2024-07-23T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-8868f38b-f9e5-4c86-8e8b-67c02ab43390.epub2024-07-23T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group