BLACKBIRD GN TOVE JANSSON is both a return to

is both a return to form and a move forward

The classic graphic novel

but two unlikely friends are trying to make something new from the discarded toys

Blackbird follows a band of skateboarding anarchists who are making a zine all about their lives

Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the darkness of the human psyche

BLACKBIRD GN TOVE JANSSON is both a return toBlackbird follows a band of skateboarding anarchists who are making a zine all about their lives. The problem is, in Maurel's dystopian near future self publishing zines has become a crime. Through media stunts, thrilling chase scenes, and some real political activism, Blackbird and its cast of characters reflects the social dynamics of a counterculture. It also gives readers a taste of the new French undergound in comics.