From celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies comes the graphic novel A Fire Story, a firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017--revised and expanded.

"Fies brilliantly enlists the graphic genre to further explore family, community, tradition, home and himself." --San Francisco Chronicle

Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures were destroyed. Brian Fies's narrative of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal experiences, including losing his house and every possession he and his wife had that didn't fit into the back of their car. In the days that followed, as the fires continued to burn through the area, Fies hastily pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online--it immediately went viral.

He has now expanded his original webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors and others in his community. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed, families broken, and a community determined to rebuild.

This revised and expanded edition includes 32 pages of bonus material, extending the story with updates on rebuilding, wrestling with insurance, wrangling with contractors, the management of sometimes volatile emotions, and the threats of yet another wildfire.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	192
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Harry N. Abrams
Fecha de Publicación	2021-04-20
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.5" x 0.7" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Oeste de EE.UU.

Fies, Brian

Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist. His widely acclaimed first graphic novel, Mom's Cancer, won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in 2005 (the first webcomic to win this award and the inspiration for the category), the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize for Best Comic, the 2007 Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and the 2007 German Children's Literature Award. He is also the author of the acclaimed, award-winning graphic novels A Fire Story, which received four starred reviews and a regional Emmy Award for an animated adaptation, and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, winner of the American Astronautical Society's 2009 Eugene M. Emme Award for Best Young Adult Literature. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.