Soft City
  • Published: 4 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781681370460
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $105.00

Soft City

The Lost Graphic Novel

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The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Pushwagner -- lost for decades, and never before published in the US -- Soft City is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World, but with an off-kilter beauty all its own.

The legendary Norwegian pop artist Pushwagner’s scathing comics masterpiece—lost for decades, and never before published in the U.S.—is an epic vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless distant war. “CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY-HAPPY WAY,” blares the morning paper. “Heil Hilton!” barks an overlord on the news.

Welcome to Soft City. Now don’t be late for work.

This NYRC edition is a giant-sized hardcover extra-thick paper and spot-color throughout.
  • Published: 4 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781681370460
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $105.00
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Praise for Soft City

"It's an absolute masterpiece of comics, and looks as if it was drawn yesterday.... It uses the medium of comics to express something profound and complicated....The book was a revelation to me, and trumps pretty much every underground comic published in America at the same time." -- Chris Ware

"Pushwagner's Magnum Opus, the graphic novel Soft City, is as feverish as a nightmare acid trip." -- The Guardian

"Its rediscovery and rescue... confirm how timely and timeless Soft City was, and still is. Prepare to be astonished." -- Paul Gravett, author of 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

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