{"product_id":"texas-kid-my-brother","title":"TEXAS KID, MY BROTHER","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe internationally acclaimed graphic novel by one of the modern masters of comics finally makes its English-language debut: \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eTexas Kid, My Brother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e by Igor Kordey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKordey'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdapted by Kordey from a short story by Darko Macan (\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eGrendel Tales: Devils and Deaths\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eA Prayer to the Sun\u003c\/span\u003e), \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eTexas Kid, My Brother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e 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 \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eThe Texas Kid\u003c\/span\u003e. 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 \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eactual\u003c\/span\u003e favorite son—knocks on his door and enters his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eTexas Kid, My Brother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GOATS FLYING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67884849070389,"sku":"9781963146271","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/e10f175aca20a7844b818805f1f1458f_original.png?v=1792537296","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/texas-kid-my-brother","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}