Cowboy Hardcover by Rikke Villadsen

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2020-03-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 100 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683962793
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This uproarious graphic novel is a surreal take on the classic Western — and a rip-roaring adventure in gender identity and queerness!

A rugged outlaw rides into a typical nineteenth-century Western town, swinging his six-guns and stirring up trouble. Meanwhile, an idle young woman gets the notion to outfit herself as a cowboy and makes her getaway. Danish cartoonist Villadsen's off-kilter vision of the Old West features exploding prostitutes, menstruating cowgirls, mysterious gender-bending, and much more. Giddyap!

About the Author

Rikke Villadsen lives and works in Copenhagen. Her first graphic novel, The Sea, was published in 2011, followed up with Cowboy (2020) and The Clitoris (2022), each demonstrating Villadsen’s singular, avant-garde graphic and narrative vision. In 2015, she was the first cartoonist to receive the prestigious Danish Art Council Grant, an honor heretofore bestowed upon novelists and poets.