Hobo Mom

Author(s): Charles Forsman (Author) , Max de Radigues (Author)

Graphic Novel

A cross-Atlantic collaboration, Hobo Mom was drawn simultaneously. Both cartoonists' clean line styles fit together perfectly to tell the story of Tom, who lives a simple life with his pre-teen daughter, Sissy. Her mother, Natasha, who left to hop trains and has become a vagrant, shows up on the doorstep of the family she abandoned years ago. There, Natasha finds an upset husband (who is still deeply in love with her), and a little girl yearning for a mother. Can someone who covets independence settle down?

Description: Tom lives a simple life as a single father of a pre-teen daughter, but their estranged wife and mother has chosen a much different path. Natasha hops trains and has become a vagrant since leaving her family a few years earlier. After a dangerous encounter riding the rails, Natasha chooses to show up on the doorstep of the family she abandoned and finds an upset husband and a little girl yearning for a mother. Can someone who covets independence settle down? Hobo Mom explores the ideas of being trapped in domesticity and whether one deserves happiness, even at the cost of others.


Review: An understated, satisfying graphic novella.


 


 


Author Biography: Charles Forsman's The End of the F***ing World graphic novel has been adapted into a critically acclaimed television series that is distributed by Netflix. He is also a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. He lives in Hancock, Mass. Max de Radigu s (b. 1982) is a Belgian cartoonist who runs the publishing house L'employ du Moi. His previous work has been translated in English by Conundrum and One Percent Press. He lives in Brussels.


 


 


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781683961765
  • : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
  • : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
  • : 0.276691
  • : January 2019
  • : .5 Inches X 6.9 Inches X 8.3 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Charles Forsman (Author) , Max de Radigues (Author)
  • : Hardback
  • : 1902
  • : English
  • : 741.5
  • : 64