STREET COP

The highly anticipated new work by Art Spiegelman. A piece that is already a cult object.

The pen of a great writer—Robert Coover, one of the masters of American literature—meets the genius of Art Spiegelman in a gem of satire and transgression. In the very near future, a policeman struggles to preserve his humanity amidst delivery robots, synthetic drug dealers, and killer drones. The world imagined by Robert Coover is a dystopia. But it is too similar to our own not to be subtly unsettling. The city is in shambles, crime is out of control despite systematic surveillance, and violence and degradation permeate everything. And nothing is truly as it seems; every street corner hides a possible surprise, or a danger. In this at times psychedelic, always disturbing scenario, an ordinary policeman goes about his business. He would like to do his duty, behave decently, perhaps find a little human warmth. But is he strong enough not to let himself be crushed by the system? Robert Coover sketches a science fiction story that turns into satire and indictment. Art Spiegelman, author of one of the works that changed the history of comics forever, in Street Cop places himself, with the humility of the masters, at the service of another's words and recovers the underground style of his beginnings, to give body to a story as irreverent as it is amusing.