Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Fantagraphics Books (1999), 96 pages
Description
by Charles Burns Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and an eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a "sci-fi-noir" aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.
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If I ever need a mystery solved and I know that it will require lots of name calling and face punching, then I am going to call el Borbah P.I.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
96 p.; 12.25 inches
ISBN
1560973269 / 9781560973263