Joff Winterhart’s Days of the Bagnold Summer perfectly captures the ennui, the tension, the pathos and the affection of this mother-son relationship. A sublimely funny and perceptive graphic novel, Days of the Bagnold is about Sue, 52 who works in a library and her son Daniel, 15, still at school. This was the summer holidays Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father’s pregnant new wife in Florida. When they cancel his trip, Sue and Daniel face six long weeks together.

Joff Winterhart is an illustrator, film-maker and plays drums in his band, Bucky. He lives in Bristol,
where he walks his greyhound, Peep-Peep.

Guardian - recenzja

"You would worry for Joff Winterhart, if he wasn't so obviously a superstar in the making. For here he is, publishing his first book, Days of the Bagnold Summer, in one of the most extraordinary years for comics that I can remember. So far, we've had new work by Alison Bechdel, Guy Delisle and Simone Lia; coming soon are long-awaited titles by Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine. Not exactly a quiet time, then, and yet he stands out: as affecting as Raymond Briggs, as beady as Posy Simmonds, a truly fantastic debut. Oh, yes. One other thing. In 2009, Winterhart was the runner-up in the Cape/Observer graphic short story prize, with an entry in which the Bagnolds made their official debut. Perhaps we can claim a tiny bit of the credit for this one."  - dalszy ciąg recenzji; wybrane ilustracje z książki

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