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7 Miles A Second Kindle & comiXology

by David Wojnarowicz (Author), James Romberger (Artist), Marguerite Van Cook (Artist, Colorist) Format: Kindle Edition

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Originally published as a comic book in 1996 by DC's Vertigo Comics, 7 Miles a Second was an instant critical success and has become a cult classic amongst fans of literary and art comics. Now fully restored and expanded, 7 Miles a Second blends the gritty naturalism of Lower East Side street life with hallucinatory, psychedelic images that takes perfect advantage of the comics medium.

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When it originally appeared as a comic book in 1996, this harrowing memoir written by the artist and activist Wojnarowicz just before his AIDS-related death in 1992 sank with little trace but has since achieved cult status. This welcome reissue publishes the work to its originally intended large page size and restores the original watercolors. Wojnarowicz recounts his days as a child prostitute around Times Square, then as a homeless teenager, and finally as an adult watching his friends die and his own health deteriorate, railing against society’s indifference to the plague. The gritty yet gaudy artwork by Romberger, a friend of Wojnarowicz’s who worked closely with him on the project, convincingly conveys the seedy milieu of Wojnarowicz’s younger years as well as his later rage and frustration as he awaits his death, with the expressionistic colors ratcheting up the nightmarish intensity. Two decades on, Times Square is cleaned up and the AIDS crisis in America is largely contained; but Wojnarowicz’s defiant cri de coeur retains its harsh potency. --Gordon Flagg

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“A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.”
- Jim Jarmusch

“The rough and seedy style of Romberger’s illustrations provides a perfect foil for Wojnarowicz’s text. Seven Miles a Second veers between an almost unbearably gritty naturalism and the incendiary heat of surrealist hallucination.”
- The New Yorker

“Revolutionary.... a runaway, over-the-top circus... An excursion into areas few, if any, comics creators have tread.”
- Jim Steranko

“[7 Miles a Second] is punk as f**k, colored in the tones of every kind of acid, and filled with rage, against the indifference of people in general and the naked disgust those in power had for homosexuals dying of AIDS in the early 1990s, when to be diagnosed was to be given a death sentence. It is an immediate work, an attempt to communicate before death that did not win its race against time.”
- Brian Nicholson, Bookslut

“A revelatory work of art... Romberger renders Wojnarowicz’s moments of delirium and violent frustration as well as interludes of tenderness and passionate attachment.”
- Art in America

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013XRZFVA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics (February 6, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 6, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 182619 KB
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James Romberger is the Eisner-nominated cartoonist of Post York (Uncivilized Books) and co-author of 7 Miles a Second (Ground Zero Books), The Late Child and Other Animals (Fantagraphics), The Bronx Kill and Aaron and Ahmed (Vertigo). His pastel drawings are in many private and public collections including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard Business School. He has written about comics, film and art for Publisher’s Weekly, Comics Journal, The Beat, LAAB, Study Group Magazine and Hooded Utilitarian. He teaches art at Parsons and Marywood University.
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Marguerite Van Cook came to New York her punk with band The Innocents, after touring the UK with The Clash. She stayed and opened the seminal installation gallery Ground Zero with her partner James Romberger. Her own works as an artist and filmmaker have placed her in many museum collections.
Her current generational graphic memoir The Late Child and Other Animals with James Romberger (Fantagraphics) has been translated and published in France under the title L'Enfant inattendue. Her color work on the graphic memoir 7 Miles a Second, a collaborative project with James Romberger and the late David Wojnarowicz garnered her a nomination for an Eisner Award 2014 for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist.
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Jennifer Tull

An Incredible Book

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2013

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This is a truly magnificent rendering of a remarkable life.
James Romberger's drawings are unbelievably dynamic and Marguerite Van Cook's ravishing colors have never been more wonderfully reproduced. This book will break your heart with it's beauty.

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Vintage East Village comics

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013

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Well known 80s East Village artists James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook and David Wojnarowicz reissue. Superb mix of these three talents meet in this nightmarish comic tale set in NYC, a reissue of hardcore storytelling.

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Katari

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2013

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Just an amazing comic. Hands down. I wrote a whole post about it on my blog. The art work and the writing and the color and everything: astounding.

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It's good, but it feels disparate

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2015

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I just wanted so much more of his story in this. It's good, but it feels disparate, and if you've read anything by or about David Wojnarowicz, nothing in this will feel new or fresh. A lot of it is said elsewhere, fleshed out more elsewhere in his writings and in biographies. It's a wonderful collaboration to see and one I wanted to get my hands on for years (and I'm glad I finally did!). I was just expecting more somehow.

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colin huber

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2015

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Perfect

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Frenesi

Nothing Special

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2015

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Powerful illustration, nothing special on the text side... pretentiousness comes in many forms.

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J.FOX

THERE ARE BETTER BOOKS THAT WILL GIVE YOU MORE FACTS

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2014

DAVID Wojinarowicz,... I knew of him, in the 1970's at RENO SWEENEYS a boy my age. He's Defiant rage keep most people away. The manager always ate with him.That was how I met him.we were friendly not friends. Later living in the east village he was hanging his ART at LIMBO LOUNGE it's the 80s I lived next door. My 15yr old sister and I. DAVID was more talkative than.and may have wanted to be more known to the people he had seen over years 7MILES A SECOND is the cleaned up version. But since I found it buying comics on ST.marks. I read it in the PYRAMID CLUB Drinking with people. Some when to get a copy to keep...Some because they could never imagine him at the PYRAMID CLUB THIS WAY Even friends who have seen his ART. THERE ARE BETTER BOOKS THAT WILL GIVE YOU MORE FACTS, but this little book is worth having for graphics. The ART of his life.

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Andrew J. Stewart

Not the best of Vertigo Comix, Great Text

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2010

Separating the artist who wrote the text from the art of this comic is interesting, so here goes...

David Wojnarowicz was a self-taught artist, boldly breaking ground in his explicit homo-erotic art, when he was diagnosed with AIDS in the early years of the disease. He died in 1992 of a death that was certainly painful and prolonged, as protease inhibitors had yet to reach the market and transform the disease from a death sentence to a terminal condition you could live with. In the last years of his life he directly challenged the religious right's crusade to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts, suing Don Wildmon for copyright infringement and misrepresentation. By the time of his death he had created a confrontational legacy that rivals the works of Tony Kushner and Larry Kramer. One of the last of his projects to be completed is this book, an autobiographical account of his life as a teen prostitute, AIDS patient, and artist.

The artwork herein is not fantastic, there are some notable panels but also some spots that David could have drawn better. That may be the problem, for such an intensely autobiographical work there is something missing because David did not illustrate it. Oh well, worth a read none the less.

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Laos Salazar

Perfecto para los amantes de este artista.

Reviewed in Mexico on May 22, 2017

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Creado a partir de los escritos del legendario Wojnarowicz, este cómic es imperdible para aquellos que seguimos a este activista y creativo. Dibujado y coloreado de forma perfecta, es un muy detalle para aquellos que de igual forma disfrutamos de la novela gráfica.

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Reviewed in France on November 16, 2011

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cette bande-dessinée autobiographique de David Wojnarowicz dont il a écrit le texte a été publié après sa mort du sida en 1992 à 37ans, elle esquisse en première partie sa vie de prostitué pour hommes à New York par quelques moments (racolage, passe, cauchemars, période de ventre vide etc) on apprend qu'il a fui un père alcoolique qui le battait et que dès ses 9 ans il vendait son corps afin de survivre, en seconde partie il est malade, amaigri, prenant des médicaments inefficaces, voyant ses amis tomber comme des mouches, souffrant et vomissant la mise au ban de la société les malades comme lui ("Ces dernières années j'ai vu un nombre incalculable de mes amis et de mes voisins mourir d'une mort lente et atroce qui aurait pu être évitée si dans cette usine à tuer qu'est l'Amérique on estimait qu'on peut très bien se passer des pédés, des gouines et des toxs. "Si vous voulez endiguer l'épidémie du sida descendez les pédés..." décrète le gouverneur du Texas dont l'attachée de presse assure ensuite qu'il blaguait et ignorait que le micro était branché mais cela dit, il ne leur semblait pas que ça compromettait ses chances d'être réélu et toute ma vie j'ai cherche des signes autour de nous dans les médias ou sur les lèvres des gens ; les bigots qui, devant la cathédrale de St Patrick, crient aux hommes et aux femmes participant à la gay pride "vous ne serez pas là l'année prochaine... vous allez attrapez le sida et en crever ah ah ah..."" p47) c'est bouleversant de constater l'isolement et l'ignominie des gens effrayés par l'arrivée fracassante de ce "cancer gay" ; avec des dessins entre réalisme et hyper-réalisme de James Romberger qui magnifie le texte très fort de David colorés dans des tons pastels par Marguerite van Cook : 3 personnes pour un récit cohérent et prenant Et c'est un moment de l'Histoire sale qui nous est exposée-là. C'est parfois effrayant mais je ne regrette en rien ce moment passé avec David.

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