FATHER’S MILK (VATERMILCH)
award winning graphic novel on alcoholism and what it does to the people around it.
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Publishing Company:
CARLSEN COMICS
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Imprint:
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Format:
SERIES
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Creator(s):
ULI OESTERLE (ART AND STORY)
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Number of Pages:
128
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Cover price:
euro 20.00
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Publication Date:
June 2020
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Age:
ADULT
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
FICTION
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Genre:
POP-CULTURE, MEMOIR, ALCOHOLISM, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES,
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Summary:
Uli Oesterle’s new award winning graphic novel on alcoholism and what it does to the people around it.
Munich 1975: Clubs, free love, cocaine and champagne in excess that’s Rufus Himmelstoss ’ life. The egocentric womanizer lives beyond his means, with consequences. When he causes a car accident while driving drunk, which kills a mother and her two kids, he heads off deep into the world of the homeless. Between the vodka and homeless shelters, he comes to a profound decision. Effecting his
life and that of his son…
Complex real characters, in intense stories with tough dialogue, incredible staging in an innovative signature Oesterle setting.This is Oesterle’s story. The records of what his father did after he left are fictionalized as he didn’t really know, his father had left.
With FATHER’S MILK, Uli Oesterle shows that a graphic novel on alcoholism and responsibility can
be deep and sensitive as well as very entertaining!Awarded the Berthold Leibinger Association Comic Book Prize
4 volumes – 2 published, volume 3 2024, volume 4 2026.
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