The guy won a Pulitzer Prize and a whole bunch of awards for this. The novel follows a writer from Brooklyn and a graphic and escape artist who has escaped the Nazis in prague. It'S the story of a Jewish family during the war and it's all about comic-books. Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay start working on superhero-books and they create charakters like The Escapist, an escape artist with a cape who becomes a national icon. Michael Chabon has done a good job writing a book about someone like Jack Kirby. The story keeps playing with the idea of the forgotten artist and people like Stan Lee and Gene Colan have guest-appearances. Jack Kirby was a king. He stood next to Elvis and nobody noticed how fucking good he was, how he had changed the look of contemporary culture by inventing this powerful style of his. But the core of the book is a triangle of love. Love, comic-books and World War II.

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Großartiger Roman über zwei jüdische Künstler und eine Frau, die gemeinsam während des 2.Weltkrieges an einer Superhelden-Serie arbeiten. Wunderbar geschrieben, historisch sinnvoll verknüpft und comicmäßig dem ganz großen Jack Kirby Tribut gezollt. Dafür gab es u.a. einen Pulitzer. Die unglaublichen Abenteuer von Kavalier & Clay hier auf Deutsch bestellen