Man in the McIntosh Suit

SKU: 9781770466661
$24.95
$22.95
$22.95
On Sale
Unavailable
per item
Author: Rina Ayuyang
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly: 2023
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781770466661



 

Description
A Filipino-American graphic novel; a take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love.

The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city to find her. What follows is classic noir with seedy dives, mouthy pool sharks, and obsession.

Rina Ayuyang indulges her passion for old Hollywood and elaborate movie musicals while exploring her immigrant roots in a playful and mysterious drama, creating something she never saw but always had hoped for--a classic tale about people who looked just like her. The Man in the McIntosh Suit is a gripping, romantic, and psychological exploration of a fledgling community chasing the American dream in an unwelcoming society heightened by racial hostility and the bubbling undercurrent of the coming Great Depression.

Author
Rina Ayuyang was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. She was always inspired by the Sunday newspaper funnies and slice-of-life tales. Her online comic, Beginning’s End, published by Mutha Magazine was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Short Story. Her Cartoonist’s Diary contribution on TCJ.com was awarded the Silver medal for Comics in Digital Media by the Society of Illustrators for its Comic and Cartoon Art Annual and nominated for an Ignatz Award for Best Online Comic. Rina was also nominated for an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent in 2010.
​