Synopsis
"Ollmann spent 10 years researching Seabrook's strange, ramshackle life, and it shows: his book is wonderfully rich and detailed. Nothing seems to escape his attention or his compassion." —Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word “zombie”
In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the...
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24 January 2017
9781770462670Reviews
"Remarkable... carefully researched... a triumph of technical cartooning."—Los Angeles Review of Books
"In Ollmann’s sweaty, ink-stained mitts, Seabrook’s life becomes a cautionary tale, character study and novelistic American tragedy all at once."—Globe & Mail
"Ollmann skillfully captures Seabrook's ardent desire to experience life and write about it even as he's killing himself with drink...As both a narrative and a story in pictures, this is an early candidate for the year's best graphic biography." —Publishers Weekly starred review
"[Ollmann is] a world leader in the school of social-realist cartoonist/writers, and his epic new graphic-novel biography The Abominable Mr. Seabrook is his most ambitious and fully realized work yet." —The Montreal Gazette
"Ollmann packs in as many excursions, marriages, benders, and kinky dalliances as he can. It's a compelling look at an interesting literary figure who is mostly forgotten today." —Mental Floss
"An unflinching look at Seabrook, his literary accomplishments and failures, his terrible self-destructiveness, and the awful spiral that took him from the heights of American letters to an ignominious suicide after his discharge from a psychiatric facility." —Boing Boing
