Clover Honey

by Rich Tommaso (Illustrator)

Overview

Abigail is an aspiring hitwoman out to prove her value to the family. She braves the wilds of Newark, overpriced parking, traffic jams, and bad hair days to track down Trevor, her former mentor, who is on the lam with a big briefcase of mob dough. A heavily revised, redrawn, and expanded twentieth anniversary edition of Rich Tommaso's debut graphic novel.

Rich Tommaso has been writing and illustrating original comics and graphic novels since 1994. His graphic novel with writer James Sturm, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow , won an Eisner award for Best Reality-Based Work in 2008.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934460863
Publisher:	Alternative Comics
Publication date:	06/30/2015
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rich Tommaso: Rich Tommaso has been writing and illustrating original comics and graphic novels since 1994. His graphic novel with writer James Sturm, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow , was praised in The New York Times and in 2008 won an Eisner award for Best Reality-Based Work.

Editorial Reviews

"...displays a handsomely quirky drawing style and an incipient talent for emotionally complex storytelling." — Publishers Weekly (review of the first edition)

"The story is wonderfully told. It has the feel of a classic movie, something from a bygone era…complete with the usual cast of chancers, crooks and have-a-go heroes... It’s a thoroughly enjoyable book, with a stunning backdrop and a deeply believable and interesting cast." — Andy Shaw, Grovel (review of Tommaso's 2012 graphic novel The Cavalier Mr. Thompson )

From the Publisher

Tommaso's first book-length work displays a handsomely quirky drawing style and an incipient talent for emotionally complex storytelling. A side trip to the racetrack (using mob money) results in a fatal misunderstanding between Trevor, a slacker hit man/courier for the Jersey mob, and his bosses, who decide he's stealing from them. Trevor goes into hiding and the Family asks his cousin Abigail, an apprentice hit chick and Trevor's former protg in crime, to find him. Abigail's search turns up Patty, a troubled mutual childhood friend, spurring a series of memory flashbacks-a familiar get-me-out-of-this-house portrait of a suffocating Italian American family-that provide the emotional backdrop for this ultimately tragic story. Despite Tommaso's efforts to portray characters trapped by fate and familial circumstance, the book's pop cultural and alternative-comics conventions (small-time wise guys screw up caper; cute, gun-toting Generation X heroine); and an ending centered on a predictable irony make the work seem slight, if entertaining and well supported by Tommaso's deftly mannered, cartoon-realist drawings. (June)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly