De: Tales [Paperback]

Fabio Moon (Author, Artist), Gabriel Ba (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 20, 2006

It is in our nature to be fascinated by identical twins. We watch them whenever possible, captivated by mirror images interacting, moving independently of one another and yet sharing the same mannerisms and speech patterns. Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba are Brazilian twins who share an award-winning talent for comics and an abiding love of the medium. Following in the wake of brothers Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez and Tomer & Asaf Hanuka, Moon & Ba bring their considerable skills to Dark Horse in De:Tales, their first major American release! This collection of short stories features the pair working together, in tandem, or separately - trading off on the roles of writing and illustrating, sharing those roles or flying solo. Brimming with all the details of human life, their charming tales move from the urban reality of their home in Sao Paulo to the magical realism of their Latin American background, living up to the twins' critical acclaim and proving that they are a talented pair to watch for.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Brazilians Moon and Ba are twin writer-artists whose drawing styles are very alike--their urban settings resemble Munoz and Sampayo's noirish cities inAlack Sinner, but the details are naturalistic rather than expressionist. Working apart and together, they create deeply satisfying realist and magic realist comics about middle-class, urban students and professionals like themselves. They're in nearly all the stories, and their preoccupations in them, par for young men, are connecting with women and clubbing and partying with friends, activities that easily overlap. In the wordless "Estrela," a man and a woman meet in a bar, leave together to walk and chat, kiss, and part, perhaps just for now. "Late for Coffee" is very similar but more mysterious. A man walks down a street to where a woman challenges him. "You're late," she says. "I don't know you," he responds. Rambling travel ensues, their talk hints at desire, they kiss, but when he invites her in, she repeats what she first said to him and strolls away. In the two versions of "Reflections," each brother works himself through the same spooky scenario about losing a chance to connect. The three-page "All You Need Is Love," in which neither brother appears, is even bleaker, this time about failed connection. Striking a related, bittersweetly regretful note is the collaborative ghost story, "Happy Birthday, My Friend!" The five other stories are just as good. Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (June 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593074859
• ISBN-13: 978-1593074852
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,386,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)