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Brian Chippendale Ninja Both an epic, 80-page fantasy graphic novel and a social allegory about an artist's struggle with money, gentrification, and city politics. Ninja is the first book by Fort Thunder co-founder and Lighting Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale, and serves as a document of his vibrant drawings, collages and posters. Hardcover, 11a" x 17t", 128 pages, color and b&w, 2006.
When Brian Chippendale was in sixth grade, he drew a bunch of little one- and two-page comic strips about a ninja doing ninja things -- clobbering bad guys with his massive ninja skills, running and hiding, collecting treasures from his exploits and bringing them back to his secret headquarters. ( And that's the end of another mission, most of them conclude.) The strips had a whole lot of panels on each page, but he drew all the characters at tiny scale, with basically no backgrounds. Then, in the middle of the 12th one, he lost interest, and left the rest of the final page blank.
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