Temperance

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The second book from 2008 Eisner "Best New Talent" Cathy Malkasian. Do ideas of war and enemies hold a people together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not to be irresistible? These are the questions Cathy Malkasian explores in her second graphic novel, Temperance. Malkasian creates, as she did in the critically acclaimed Percy Gloom, a fully realized, multi-layered world, inhabited by vividly realized characters. After a brutal injury in battle, Lester has no memory of his prior life. Fo