Minimum Wage Book One (MINIMUM WAGE TP) - Softcover

Fingerman, Bob

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9781560971870: Minimum Wage Book One (MINIMUM WAGE TP)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560971878 ISBN 13: 9781560971870

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 1995

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About the Author:

Bob Fingerman is the award-winning creator of such critically acclaimed graphic novels as "Beg the Question", "White Like She", and "Recess Pieces". In his novel "Bottomfeeder", Fingerman tossed away the typical gothic and romantic trappings of the vampire genre in favor of portraying the down-to-earth story of a working class Queens-bred vampire. In "Recess Pieces", Fingerman whipped up a bloody maelstrom of adorable moppets and the living dead set within the confines of a school. In the uneasy romantic roman a clef "Beg the Question" he presented anxious young love in the streets of Brooklyn long before gentrification. His graphic novel "From the Ashes "is a "speculative memoir" set in the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York City. He has a short story in the zombie anthology "The Living Dead 2". He lives in New York City with his wife, Michele.

Review:

"STARK YET HILARIOUS REALITY" "The sort of earthy realism so often missing from conventional prose novels." --Entertainment Weekly

"Minimum Wage features a cast that is full of energy and life." --Wizard Magazine

"Bob Fingerman has grounded his stories in stark yet hilarious reality. Unlike most writers, who bring their characters to the brink of disaster and then veer them off into safety, Bob plunges them headlong into the maw of it. Just like life. That's why his work resonates. That is the pendulum upon which Minimum Wage swings." --stand-up comic Dana Gould, the star of his own HBO comedy specials, from the Foreword -- Eric Reynolds, Publicist

...graphic novel form with the sort of earthy realism so often missing from conventional prose novels. -- Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker

Minimum Wage: Book Two is a thoroughly enjoyable twentysomething slice of life. Even though this is the second collection of Bob Fingerman's Minimum Wage stories, it reads well as a stand-alone volume: all of the characters are properly reintroduced and are distinctive enough to immediately engage new readers. The first two of the five chapters deal with protagonists Rob and Sylvia looking for an apartment together in New York City. Anyone who's had a hard time looking for a place to live or who hates to move will find plenty of humor in these pages. The fourth chapter, which centers on a comic-book convention (Rob is a cartoonist), is chock full of funny scenes and comics-industry cameos, which can be pretty darn funny if you're in on the jokes (if you're not up on comics convention humor, though, the chapter may not be as engaging). The volume ends slightly anticlimactically, leaving room for a third book, but don't let that deter you. Minimum Wage is great reading. -- amazon.com

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