Haunted cover

D+Q and Words Without Borders present:

“THE GLOBAL GRAPHIC NOVEL: STRAIGHT OUT OF ANGOULÊME”
Philippe Dupuy in conversation with Charles Berberian
Wednesday, March 5th, 7:00 PM
Housing Works Café, 126 Crosby Street, NYC

Dupuy's solo graphic novel, Haunted, will be launching, with a signing following the Q+A.

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ABOUT HAUNTED:
Ten years after finishing the original French edition of Maybe Later—the book in which the French superstar cartooning duo Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian worked separately for the first time—Dupuy set out on his own again with Haunted. Gone are the tightly constructed narratives and urbane, elegant graphics of his projects with Berberian. In their place, roughed-in drawings give an urgent, spontaneous feeling to a series of hallucinatory stories and dreamlike sequences that register the raw distress of solitude and self-doubt—the dark core of the material held in balance by Dupuy's acid humor and lyrical sensibility.

A jogging Dupuy runs around and sometimes through the stories of the misfit characters that haunt him: a self-amputating dog, a Left Bank artist in search of emptiness, an art-collecting duck, Lucha Libre wrestlers, and a group of single guys at the watering hole imagined as the anthropomorphic “Forest Friends." Heart pumping, gaze turned inward, the ground occasionally giving way beneath his feet, this alter ego concludes that sometimes you need to cross the line to figure out where it is.

The original French edition of Haunted was nominated for the 2006 award for Best Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Dupuy and Berberian were awarded the prestigious Angoulême Grand Prize in 2008.

In stores March 18th, 2008
Distributed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (USA) & Raincoast Books (Canada)
$24.95, ISBN: 978-1-897299-26-5
Graphic Novels / Literary • 6.75” x 9.5” • 208 pages • Hardcover • Black & White

ABOUT PHILIPPE DUPUY:
Born in Paris in 1960, Philippe Dupuy has been working in comics for nearly 30 years, mostly in collaboration with Charles Berberian, becoming most famous for their Mr. Jean stories, which have sold over 120,000 copies in France alone. Their translated work includes Get a Life and Maybe Later (2006), as well as contributions to the Drawn & Quarterly Anthology and the New Yorker. He also collaborated with Loo Hui Phang to create a book about Mexican drag queens, Arizona and the reelection of President George Bush: Une élection américaine, published in France in 2006.