{"product_id":"the-cabbie-mart-9781606994504","title":"The Cabbie: Book One","description":"Sergio Leone's retooling of classic westerns for his \"spaghetti westerns\"... Stieg Larsson's striking take on the serial killer\/mystery thriller in \u003cem\u003eThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\u003c\/em\u003e... And for that matter ABBA's fiendishly catchy appropriation of American pop music. Sometimes it takes Europeans to make gold of tuckered-out American tropes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Add to those instances of inspired global cross-pollination the Spanish cartoonist Martí's eye-popping \u003cem\u003eThe Cabbie\u003c\/em\u003e, which spins off Martin Scorsese's sordid urban-justice drama \u003cem\u003eTaxi Driver\u003c\/em\u003e with a graphic style that unapologetically appropriates and even refines the brutal slabs of black, squashed perspectives, and grotesque approach to human physiognomy (and its ability to withstand punishment) that define Chester Gould's \u003cem\u003eDick Tracy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And as Art Spiegelman (who was the first to publish Martí's work in English, in \u003cem\u003eRAW\u003c\/em\u003e magazine) notes in his introduction, while \"Gould's graphic black and white precision and his diagrammatic clarity live on in Martí's work,\" he points out that \"more interestingly, perhaps, so does Gould's depravity.\" Indeed, if anything, \u003cem\u003eThe Cabbie\u003c\/em\u003e is even more savage than the legendarily brutal \u003cem\u003eDick Tracy\u003c\/em\u003e, with its pimps, whores, petty thieves, corrupt businessmen, all swirling around the ingenuously violent \"Cabbie\" whose self-administered \"upstanding citizen\" status entitles him -- in his view -- to even more shocking acts of violence -- especially on his quest for the stolen coffin of his father, which he's told includes his entire inheritance!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martí\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606994506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606994504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.50h x 8.80w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/26\/2011","brand":"Martí","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938703573247,"sku":"9781606994504","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f1ceab4b-3cb7-4a01-b375-62ac5dd98e57.jpg?v=1681437246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cabbie-mart-9781606994504","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}