Jerome Charyn unveils The Magician’s Wife at JHU Comic Books in Manhattan!

Dover Publications and JHU Comic Books

Present

JEROME CHARYN

Unveiling the new Dover English edition of his classic, multiple award-winning French bande dessinee from 1986…

THE MAGICIAN’S WIFE

“A dark, menacingly brilliant tale, tinged with the erotic . . . a kind of film noir between covers directed by Fellini.” ― LA Times

“Brilliant, funny, hallucinatory.” ― Joyce Carol Oates

“More engaging than 96 percent of the fiction published in France or North America today.” ― Artforum

The Prize for Best Album (Prix du meilleur album), also known as the Golden Wildcat (Fauve d’Or), has been awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival since 1976.  Globally, it is one of the most prestigious and respected comic awards given out each year.  In 1986, The Magician’s Wife (Originally published in French as La Femme du magicien) won this award, helping to introduce important American author Jerome Charyn to French comic book audiences, and majorly propelling the career of the now legendary French comic book artist Francois Boucq.  In 1988, an English edition of the book surfaced from a small US publisher, but only stayed in print for a few years before disappearing for almost three decades.  With last year’s release of a new French edition by European publisher Lombard, Dover Publications’ graphic novel editor Drew Ford decided it was finally time for the release of a new English edition.

Spanning multiple decades and continents, this phantasmagorical epic is the result of writer Jerome Charyn and artist François Boucq combing their talents to recount a surrealistic tale about the wife of a philandering magician and her struggles with terrifying demons, both real and imaginary. This new edition promises to mesmerize a new generation of readers for years to come!

Free to enter, purchase of book required to participate in book signing.