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Also: a foreword by novelist Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife); a facsimile reproduction of Bukowski's literary debut, 6 Poems (thought lost to time in the wake of a motel fire that destroyed the entire original print run); a 'Works Cited' section; and a selection of 'visual tributes' by over two dozen cartoonists -including Nina Bunjevac, Simon Hanselmann, Jesse Jacobs, Ed Piskor, Leslie Stein, and others.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302502904181,"sku":"9781683965145","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781683965145_cb426f23-e4f7-4b9f-a2b1-ffa41dc1076c.jpg?v=1786024942"},{"product_id":"9781683965619","title":"As a Cartoonist","description":"Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van Sciver puts to use all the creative arrows in his quiver in this captivating collection of fiction, biography, memoir, and more. Van Sciver juxtaposes fictional stories about what life as a '19th Century Cartoonist' might have looked like with a series of autobiographical strips about life as a contemporary cartoonist, along with pieces about his father and childhood that inform the path in life he has chosen.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303809921397,"sku":"9781683965619","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781683965619_0d2c696b-c39c-419d-9445-424e7fe01cd4.jpg?v=1786024970"},{"product_id":"9781786636874","title":"Eugene V. Debs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the United States by the 1920s. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison on the Socialist Party ticket, receiving over 1 million votes. Debs’s life is a story of labor battles in industrializing America, of a fighting socialist politics grown directly out of the Midwest heartland, and of a distinctly American vision of socialism.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305682088309,"sku":"9781786636874","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786636874_b735602d-b50f-40f6-9eef-5fb55feb1fc4.jpg?v=1786025669"},{"product_id":"9798875000478","title":"Beat It, Rufus","description":"Rufus Baxter is an aging, professionally unemployed loser, desperately - delusionally - hanging on to his 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining arenas, despite so much evidence to the contrary (like audience members ducking when he tosses promo t-shirts at an open-mic night). The rest of his bandmates in Funky Cool died decades ago in a horrible plane crash on the cusp of their first big break. When he gets kicked out of the Denver storage unit he's been illegally sleeping in, his only prospect is a last-second wedding gig the very next day - in Wyoming. A hop in his car, and possibly a peyote button or two, sends Baxter on a psychedelic and existential road trip through his past, and forces him to confront every bad decision he's made along the way. Beat It, Rufus is very much a kindred spirit with Van Sciver's Fante Bukowski series, a comedic character study both played for laughs but also infused with a surprising gravitas that has you rooting for Rufus despite having every reason not to. Van Sciver's comedic and graphic talents are in peak form in this original graphic novel, his follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed graphic bio, Joseph Smith and the Mormons.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311305798005,"sku":"9798875000478","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798875000478_b2096db7-6158-43a9-86a9-3c9047e8a858.jpg?v=1786032904"},{"product_id":"9781662665400","title":"Calamity Before Jane","description":"\u003cb\u003eCalamity Jane and the stories surrounding her are famous, but this graphic novel for young readers 8 and up is here to tell the story of Martha Jane Canary—the real-life survivor, orphan, and storyteller behind the legend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1901, the Pan-American Exposition World's Fair was held in Buffalo, New York. Amongst spectacles like advancements in electricity and new inventions like the X-ray machine is a woman with a story—but not the one you’ve heard. Calamity Jane’s life is shrouded in exaggerations and lies told to sell a more marketable version of reality, but cartoonist Noah Van Sciver is here to tell the truth: Martha Jane Cannary struggled throughout her life, from her childhood as a destitute orphan to her bitter adulthood as she watched the West she loved disappear before her eyes.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369098883445,"sku":"9781662665400","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781662665400_d9e75835-5599-4d50-ba43-3041c284d36e.jpg?v=1786024682"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-noah-van-sciver.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}