Comics & Graphic Novels Literary
Happy Stories About Well-Adjusted People
An Ollmann Omnibus
- Publisher
- Conundrum Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2014
- Category
- Literary, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894994866
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $20
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Description
Ollmann has been called the best writer of short stories working in comics today. Featuring a lengthy introduction, this is the definative collection of those stories. Although the term "graphic novel" has become widely accepted in the publishing industry and the culture at large, it describes long form works. This omnibus makes obvious that there is a need for a term to describe the short story version of the graphic novel. In the same way the short story has recently had a resurgence, winning many literary awards, so too the graphica version. Ollmann won the Doug Wright Award in 2007 for This Will All End in Tears, most of which is contained in this omnibus. The best stories from Chewing on Tinfoil are included, as well as two new stories, written just for this book.
About the author
Joe Ollmann lives in Hamilton, the Riviera of Southern Ontario. He is the winner of the Doug Wright Award for Best Book in 2007 and loser of the same award many other times. Author of 7 books, Chewing On Tinfoil (Insomniac, 2001), The Big Book of Wag! (Conundrum, 2006), This Will All End in Tears (Insomniac, 2006, Winner of the 2007 Doug Wright Award for best book), Mid-Life! (Drawn and Quarterly, 2011), Science Fiction (Conundrum, 2013), Happy stories About Well-Adjusted People (Conundrum, 2014) and The Abominable Mr. Seabrook (Drawn and Quarterly, 2017). CBC Radio has said of him "Joe Ollmann is to graphic novels what Alice Munro is to fiction: a master of the short story form."
Editorial Reviews
"Joe Ollmann is criminally under-appreciated. He's one of our mediums' great writers. A man with an understanding of heartbreak and a talent for comic timing. The work is deceptive - reading as smoothly as a page-turner but remaining in the mind and soul long after the covers are closed." - Seth (Author of Palookaville.)
"Joe Ollmann is to graphic novels what Alice Munro is to fiction: a master of the short story form." - CBC
