Bigg Time A Farcical Fable of Fleeting Fame TP Ty Templeton Vertigo TP 1st print NM

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Bigg Time: A Farcical Fable of Fleeting Fame Paperback
by Ty Templeton (Author)

After a freak accident allows Lester Biggs to see and interact with his guardian angel, the homeless, aspiring actor learns that all of his misfortunes are the direct result of his bored celestial protector’s twisted machinations. Hoping to make amends for ruining his charge’s life for his own amusement, the mischievous angel grants Lester his greatest desire, to be famous. Now in a humorous and satirical series of events that exposes the absurdity of the entertainment industry, Lester encounters insane talent agents, gorgeous groupies, abducting aliens and a secret society based on hair loss on his road to instant stardom as a movie star, a recording artist, and a TV personality.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Vertigo

The allure of fame and the futility of pursuing it are the themes of this bitterly satiric graphic novel. Homeless, hapless Lester Bigg–once an aspiring actor but now living on the street–discovers that he has a guardian angel, and the angel has been sabotaging his life out of sheer boredom. Lester (don’t call him Les Bigg, he insists, because he isn’t) forces the angel to make up for his breach of professional ethics by granting him the American Dream and making him famous. The angel leads Lester down the standard paths to contemporary fame–Hollywood, the Internet, TV game shows–before finally succeeding in an ironic denouement. Templeton’s work combines alternative-comics attitude with mainstream-level visual slickness, and his appealing graphic style of exaggerated realism proves ideal for the subject matter. Templeton’s point–fame ain’t all it’s cracked up to be–may not be particularly fresh or provocative, but he sells it with great humor. Readers should get a kick out of Lester’s unavailing struggle for stardom.

Near mint, 1st print.