GIANT ORSON WELLS, THE

GIANT ORSON WELLS, THE

The Artist & the Shadow

• Publishing Company:

  FIRST SECOND BOOKS

• Imprint:

  23RD ST.

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  YOUSSEF DAOUDI (ART AND STORY)

• Number of Pages:

  272

• Cover price:

  USD 29.99

• Publication Date:

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  AMERICAN HISTORY, FILM,

• Summary:

  From graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil: legendary filmmaker Orson Welles.

  Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over Hollywood. By twenty-three, Welles had revolutionized theatre and radio with The War of the Worlds; by twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his debut film, Citizen Kane. Yet four films and less than a decade later, his career suffered a spectacular collapse, and Welles, once the most promising director in America, was written off as a “would-be genius”—a bad bet in an increasingly money-conscious industry.
  In The Giant, Youssef Daoudi weaves together reality and mythology to create a radical new look at one of Hollywood’s most legendary figures and poses a question as timeless as Orson Welles himself: What happens when a true artist comes up against the rest of the world?