The internationally acclaimed graphic novel by one of the modern masters of comics finally makes its English-language debut: Texas Kid, My Brother by Igor Kordey.
Kordey's remarkable skill and staggering craftsmanship are on full searing display in this raw, revelatory tale, spanning from the very birth of the comics medium, through an industry's growing pains, to the unhealed traumas of today.
Adapted by Kordey from a short story by Darko Macan (Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths, A Prayer to the Sun), Texas Kid, My Brother tells the tortured story of Radovan Brandt, a cartoonist bearing under the overpowering weight of his father's legacy…Tomislav Brandt, the creator of the legendary Western comic strip The Texas Kid. Radovan has finally begun to step out from his father's shadow, when suddenly the Texas Kid himself—the fictional comic strip character, and his father's actual favorite son—knocks on his door and enters his life.
In Texas Kid, My Brother, Kordey lays bare the bruises, scars, and unhealed trauma resulting from the birth of comics. A generation reared in the years before World War II, and witness to its horrors, transformed their hardship and anguish into a whole new medium, forging a lucrative new industry…and an inescapable legacy that holds us still in its thrall today.