Dispossession
Subtitle: a novel of few words
By: Simon Grennan ; after John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope ; translation of the Wiradjuri language by Cheryl Riley ; postface by Jan Baetens and Ortwin de Graef
Contributors: Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882; Riley, Cheryl, translator; Baetens, Jan, writer of added commentary; Graef, Ortwin de, 1963- writer of added commentary
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780224102209
Subjects: Gold mines and mining; Wiradjuri (Australian people); Comic books, strips
Description: "England, 1873. John Caldigate, a young gentleman, gets into debt gambling and decides to try his luck in the gold fields of New South Wales. On the outward journey, he promises to marry Mrs Smith, a divorced actress. Returning home a rich man, John marries Hester, the sweetheart he left behind. Soon, Mrs Smith also returns from Australia, penniless, and claims that she is already his wife. Inspired by Anthony Trollope's 1879 novel John Caldigate, Dispossession embeds the reader in a uniquely wrought experience of the mid-nineteenth century, including the first ever appearance of the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language in a graphic novel. Taking unique advantage of the graphic form to conjure the material world of the Victorian era in a glittering waltz of intense colour and deep shadow, Dispossession is a virtuoso and intensely affecting graphic novel by a master visual storyteller. Simon Grennan is an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, comics scholar and author of over forty comics and artist's books."--Page 4 of cover.