Nudism Comes to Connecticut Hardcover by Susan Schade

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2023-06-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 180 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683967873
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Nudism Comes to Connecticut is a fascinating graphic memoir of optimism, debt, nakedness and real estate scheming in the early 1930s.

Frank Mallett, inspired by cooperative colonies he had visited in Europe, returned home envisioning utopian communities of bohemian emigrés and artistic intellectuals proliferating in sylvan harmony. With the crash of 1929 his already floundering enterprises seemed doomed — until he discovered a growing interest in healthy, wholesome nudism.

Closely based on actual people and events, Nudism Comes to Connecticut exposes the conflict between the ecstasy of the “exquisite naked plunge” and voyeurism, competitiveness, and greed by way of many period writings and letters. Although Frank’s love of nature never falters, he learns that there is more to nudism than meets the eye.

Nudism is veteran children’s book authors Jon Buller and Susan Schade’s first published graphic novel, lovingly rendered in delicate, indeed, enticing, pen lines.

About the Author

Susan Schade and her husband Jon Buller have been collaborating on children's books for more than 20 years, and have published more than 30 books. The Noisy Counting Book was one of the first books they created together.

Jon Buller and his wife, Susan Schade, have been writing and illustrating children's books for more than 20 years and have published more than 30 works, including The Noisy Counting Book, 20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea, Toad on the Road, and I Love You, Good Night. They live in Lyme, Connecticut.