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Dragman cuenta la historia de August Crimp, un hombre que tiene superpoderes cuando se pone ropa de mujer. A August le encanta llevar vestidos, pero se siente profundamente avergonzado por ello y le aterroriza el rechazo que podría suponer que su secreto saliera a la luz, así que no se lo dice a nadie, ni siquiera a su mujer. Pero un día, cuando una niña se precipita al vacío desde la cafetería de la azotea del museo de arte contemporáneo, August no tiene más remedio que echar a volar para salvarla, un suceso que es presenciado por cientos de personas. A partir de entonces, la vida de August Crimp ya nunca volverá a ser la misma. Obra ganadora del premio especial del jurado en el Festival de Angoulême 2021 y elegida mejor novela gráfica de 2020 por 'The Guardian', Dragman es el primer thriller de largo aliento que firma Steven Appleby, que es además el autor de la magnífica rotulación manual de la edición de Astiberri. Inspirado por los tebeos de superhéroes que leía de niño y basándose en su propia vida secreta como travesti, Steven Appleby ha creado una novela gráfica de múltiples capas, férrea en su trama y con una inteligente y adictiva estructura, en la que August, su protagonista, combate la codicia, el mal y sus propias inseguridades en una lucha interna por rescatarse a sí mismo, salvar su matrimonio y redimir el alma humana. Los fans de Steven Appleby y su inconfundible estilo de dibujo, que conocemos de sus muchos libros y de tiras como 'Captain Star' (NME, 'The Observer'), 'Small Birds Singing' ('The Times') o 'Loomus' ('The Guardian'), no se sentirán defraudados.
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Dragman
2022-06-22, Editorial Finestres
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Dragman: Ein Roman
2021-05-06, Schaltzeit Verlag
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Dragman: A Novel
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Dragman: een graphic novel
2020-04-01, Podium b.v. Uitgeverij
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Dragman tells the story of August Crimp, a man who has superpowers when he puts on women's clothes. August loves wearing a dress but is deeply ashamed of his compulsion and terrified of rejection should it ever come out. So he tells no one. Not even his wife. But then one day a little girl falls from the rooftop cafe at the Art Museum and August has no choice but to fly and save her - an event witnessed by hundreds of people.
And August Crimp's life is never the same again.
Dragman is Steven Appleby's first long-form graphic thriller. Inspired by the superhero comics he read as a child and informed by his own secret life as a transvestite, Steven Appleby has created a multi-layered, tightly plotted, cleverly structured novel with a compulsive forward drive in which August battles greed, evil and his own self-doubt in a fight to save himself, his marriage - and the human soul. A real page-turner, Dragman brims with humanity, subtlety and wit - plus plenty of Steven Appleby's oblique and absurdly imaginative musings on 'what is life really all about?'
Fans of Steven Appleby's unmistakable drawing style, as seen in his many books and in comic strips such as Captain Star (NME, Observer), Small Birds Singing (The Times), and Loomus (Guardian), will not be disappointed.
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