The Wild Kingdom (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781770460003)

The new master of Comics Experimentalism returns with his Everyman, Glenn Ganges

Standing out among his contemporaries, Kevin Huizenga's subtle mastery of the medium has earned him countless accolades and awards. His comics are at once straightforward and experimental, serious and funny. His character is the suburban everyman Glenn Ganges, a modern-day Dagwood Bumstead, who tackles and stumbles with such heady topics as mysticism and science.

In TheWild Kingdom, Glenn Ganges blindly interacts with the nature of his suburban neighborhood: dead houseplants, a recipe for gray squirrel brain, and pigeons eating discarded French fries in the parking lot of a fast-food joint. Huizenga juxtaposes Glenn's ignorance of his surroundings with television commercials highlighting society's needs for cure-all pharmaceuticals and "hot new things" like teeth whiteners. Starting off wordless, The Wild Kingdom grows more complex page by page, ending with encyclopedic entries, biographical excerpts, anthropologic flowcharts, and a cataclysmic encounter of nature and technology.

Author: Kevin Huizenga
ISBN-10: 1770460004
ISBN-13: 9781770460003
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.96w x 0.71d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2011 pg. 146
New York Times Book Review 10/31/2010 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 12/13/2010