Blackbird Days

By Manuele Fior. Published by Fantagraphics. 

Hardcover, 88 pages, Colour, 2018. 

Fior showcases his versatility and mastery of the form in this collection of short literary comics fiction.

In this collection, two giant robots battle it out in a European metropolis; an engineer is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry; a recently relocated father loses his young son in Berlin’s Tempelhof Park; the painter Arnold Böcklin takes a trip before he paints his famous masterpiece, The Island of Death; and, an immigrant grandmother tells the story of how she escaped war in Indochina. Blackbird Days is rounded out with an autobiographical snapshot of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, Fior’s home.