Strays

Publishing Company:
SELFMADEHERO
Imprint:
Format:
ONE SHOT
Creator(s):

CHRIS W. KIM (ARTIST / WRITER)
Number of Pages:

192
Cover price:

£ 14.99
Publication Date:

October 2021
Age:
Fiction/Non-Fiction
FICTION
Key words:
Summary:

KEY NOTE
An enigmatic parable of the modern city, where strangers can become friends, and vice versa.
DESCRIPTION
A young man fleeing a disaster comes to live in the city with his sister, making ends meet by taking a job as a delivery man… only to encounter a flood of old friends and acquaintances on his daily route. At first elated by the company of these waifs and strays, he finds that their desperation for work begins to trouble his conscience – but what happens when you can’t help everyone? In his distinctively detailed graphic style, Chris W. Kim presents an elusively disquieting parable of modern isolation, and of the ties that bind – or fail to bind – society together.

“I really enjoyed Strays, a great meditation on loneliness, isolation and grief. Wonderful cartooning.” — Jeff Lemire