5 is the perfect number (1994-2002)

by Igort and Igort Tuveri

Winner of the "book of the year" award in Frankfurt Bookfair 2003 Winner of the Coccobill award as best author 2003 (Milano comics festival Cartoomics) Winner of the special award A.N.A.F.I. 2003... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224073877
• ISBN13: 9780224073875
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.6" x 0.6" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Pretty Outstanding

Igort's book is a book that shows what the genre can convey at its best. The two-color style really brings out some of the themes very well also. Interesting Italian take on Italian crime, the author's nationality lends some credibility to the story.

Beautiful comic

I was blown away by this book. The artist creates a mystery atmosphere with his use of duo tone. The art is incredible,it is not a complicate story but it is so "noir". I would definitely recommend this book as an out of the box comic.

5 is the perfect rating!!

Igort's 5 is the perfect number blows the lid off the american graphic novel scene by showing how good gritty italian comic noir can be. Imagine a surreal, poetic, cinematic grand vision not unlike The Godfather movies and infuse it with stunning visuals, pithy dialogues, gut-wrenchingly real characters and a crackling plot. What you get is the beginning of this graphic novel work of art. The story is deceptively simple. Retired Hitman for the Mafia has to take to the gun again as his dear son, who followed in his footsteps, is killed by the very men who employed him. But through stunning Duotone graphics (blue & shades of grey) Igort paints a masterful series of pictures that drive this fast plot ahead. Although i am not much of a graphic novel fan, i would definitely be addicted to them if each one was as beautiful and stunning as this one is. This is about as close as Graphic novels can get to sublime beauty.