Single

Description

This existential graphic novel draws us into the world of a Prague thirty-something who’s just been dumped by his longtime girlfriend. What does it mean to be single at a time when everyone around you is starting families? Is it a blessing or a curse? And what to do now? Think about the past, seek yourself, try to redefine your existence? A lot of questions, not a lot of answers. The single is free, but against his will. And it’s this very freedom which brings him stories and experiences which he’d never go through otherwise. A strange trip to Rome with a friend that didn’t go as planned. A brief but nonetheless intense relationship with a racist football fan. And many other scenes which play out in his head as memories during a purgative voyage across the Arctic Ocean. The single is like an iceberg waiting for a fateful Titanic to strike.

Jiři Franta was born in 1978 in Prague. He has been spending most of his time drawing and painting since his childhood. Beside that he creates installations, objects and videos. In publishing house Labyrint he collaborated on book Why Paintings Don´t Need Names (2015) which was awarded two major prizes (Zlatá stuha and Magnesia Litera) and also a book A Guide to an Unexplored Territory (2016) awarded by the prize The Book Design of the Year. He is a member of an art group Rafani and he works and exhibits in an artistic duo with David Böhm with whom he has been several times nominated for Jiří Chaloupecký Award. Together they also started comic magazine KIX and designed T-shirts for Bohemians 1905 football club fans.