Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days

Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days
Date 2009
Main characters Pim & Francie
Page count 240 pages
Publisher Fantagraphics
Creative team
Creator Al Columbia
Editor Eric Reynolds

Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days is a 2009 book by Al Columbia. Subtitled "Artifacts and Bone Fragments", it is a scrapbook-like assemblage of illustrations, paintings, sketches, and unfinished comics featuring his Hansel and Gretel-like characters Pim and Francie, drawn over a period of more than ten years.[1] According to Columbia, the book's fragmentary vignettes "were all attempts [to] make a full-fledged comic and do things right - to put out comics regularly. But it just never really happened that way for me."[2]

Pim & Francie was enthusiastically received in the comics press.[3][4][5] It was named one of the best graphic novels of the year by The Village Voice[6] and the Austin American-Statesman[7] and garnered positive reviews in other venues including Publishers Weekly,[8] Booklist,[9] and The A.V. Club.[10] It also earned Columbia two Ignatz Award nominations, for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel.[11]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/pim-francie-the-golden-bear-days-3.html
  2. ↑ http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2009/12/01/interview-al-columbia-pt-1-of-4/
  3. ↑ http://classic.tcj.com/alternative/pim-francie-the-golden-bear-days/
  4. ↑ http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2009/11/comics_time_pim_francie.html
  5. ↑ http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2009/11/24/pim-francie-the-golden-bear-days-by-al-columbia/
  6. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20121019114321/http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-12-08/art/2009-s-best-comics-and-graphic-novels/
  7. ↑ http://www.statesman.com/life/books/drawn-in-by-another-world-148916.html
  8. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6708571.html?nid=2789&source=link&rid=16991605
  9. ↑ http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/pim-francie-the-golden-bear-days-3.html
  10. ↑ http://www.avclub.com/articles/january-15-2010,37128/
  11. ↑ http://www.spxpo.com/2010-ignatz-award-recipients
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