A Strange Day [Paperback]

Damon Hurd (Author), Tatiana Gill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 22, 2005

Skipping school to buy the latest Cure album, Miles arrives at the deserted Media Play parking lot waiting for the store to open. Here he meets Anna, who skipped her own classes for the same agenda. A free spirit, Anna takes it upon herself to bring introverted Miles out of his black-clad shell. A Strange Day is an original graphic novella about alienation, kindred spirits, and two Cure heads' serendipitous friendship, and the lessons they learn from each other.

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Hurd, lucky in his artist collaborators (see The White Elephant, 2004, drawn by Christopher Steininger), offers a teenage love story he wants the reader to approach as "the sixteen year old that fell in love at first sight." Miles meets Anna when both skip school to get the new Cure CD and arrive at the music store before it opens. They kill time with the morning mall-walkers and return to find that the CD won't go on sale 'til afternoon. They get something to eat and drive to his special place and then to hers. Meanwhile, they've talked, shared intimacies, and kissed. He's revealed his loneliness, and she her impulsiveness, especially in her last action before the story ends. Will they see more of one another? The attitude Hurd wants us to take implies they will. Gill commands a thick, active line, varies distance more than angle of perspective, crops effectively, and never distracts with too much background detail. A sweet, lovely, utterly credible slice-of-teen-life. Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Alternative Comics (February 22, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891867741
• ISBN-13: 978-1891867743
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,708,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely love story for Cure fans, November 25, 2005

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boneworx (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Strange Day (Paperback)

In this book I found a very artfully written and illustrated fairy tale, which was especially poignant for me as an aging cure fan in love. It now sits comfortably on my bookshelf between other such sentimental texts. Recommended to any fan of original romantic comic works and/or the Cure.

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute, in a kind of Edward Gorey way., November 15, 2005

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Strange Day (Paperback)

Damon Hurd, A Strange Day (Alternative Comics, 2005)

Damon Hurd says in his foreword to this book that he knows it's cheesy, and that it's written not for us, but for "the sixteen-year-old in [us] that fell in love at first sight." Thus, be warned.

That said, Hurd does, in fact, know what he's on about. This little tale is the story of two high-school kids who skip school to buy the new Cure album, find out it won't be going on sale until midafternoon, and spend the rest of the day (or what we see in it) falling in love. Tatiana Gill's artwork mirrors the impulsive nature of the protagonists quite nicely, if a little ham-handed at times. (Of course, there's a very fine difference between "ham-handed" and "German Expressionist" or "L'Association," so draw your own conclusions.)

A cute, and attractively-priced, little book. Cure fans will definitely want to sink their teeth into this one, as will those who got a nostalgic twinge while reading Jolene Siana's recent Go Ask Ogre. ***