A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes - reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature.
Grace Ellis made a name for herself in the industry by creating unforgettable, lovable, and funny characters. She burst onto the comics scene with The Lumberjanes, which she co-created and co-wrote. It was a New York Times bestselling, Eisner, and GLAAD Award-winning comics series that broke the mold of both YA and superhero comics. She is also the author and creator of the series Moonstruck, illustrated by Shea Beagle, and writer of the soon-to-be-released series Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge for DC Comics. Ellis lives in Columbus, Ohio. Hannah Templer is a queer cartoonist currently living in Baltimore, Maryland. They have worked as a colorist, cover artist, and interior artist on titles such as GLOW, Samurai Jack, Jem and the Holograms, Captain Marvel, and Tomb Raider. They are also the creator of Cosmoknights, an original graphic novel series published in 2019 by Top Shelf Comics. Their work as a cover artist—with clients like Dark Horse, IDW, Valiant, BOOM! Studios, Marvel, HarperCollins, Abrams Books—is as extensive as it is dynamic and stunning. Joan Schenkar is a widely reviewed, award-winning playwright, author, and literary biographer. Her most recent book, the national award-winning biography, The Talented Miss Highsmith is a New York Times Notable Book published throughout the world. She lives and writes in Paris and Greenwich Village.
Show moreA fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes - reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature.
Grace Ellis made a name for herself in the industry by creating unforgettable, lovable, and funny characters. She burst onto the comics scene with The Lumberjanes, which she co-created and co-wrote. It was a New York Times bestselling, Eisner, and GLAAD Award-winning comics series that broke the mold of both YA and superhero comics. She is also the author and creator of the series Moonstruck, illustrated by Shea Beagle, and writer of the soon-to-be-released series Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge for DC Comics. Ellis lives in Columbus, Ohio. Hannah Templer is a queer cartoonist currently living in Baltimore, Maryland. They have worked as a colorist, cover artist, and interior artist on titles such as GLOW, Samurai Jack, Jem and the Holograms, Captain Marvel, and Tomb Raider. They are also the creator of Cosmoknights, an original graphic novel series published in 2019 by Top Shelf Comics. Their work as a cover artist—with clients like Dark Horse, IDW, Valiant, BOOM! Studios, Marvel, HarperCollins, Abrams Books—is as extensive as it is dynamic and stunning. Joan Schenkar is a widely reviewed, award-winning playwright, author, and literary biographer. Her most recent book, the national award-winning biography, The Talented Miss Highsmith is a New York Times Notable Book published throughout the world. She lives and writes in Paris and Greenwich Village.
Show moreA fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt
Grace Ellis made a name for herself in the industry by
creating unforgettable, lovable, and funny characters. She burst
onto the comics scene with The Lumberjanes, which she cocreated and
cowrote. It was a New York Times bestselling, Eisner and GLAAD
Award–winning comics series that broke the mold of both YA and
superhero comics. She is also the author and creator of the series
Moonstruck, illustrated by Shae Beagle, and writer of the series
Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge for DC Comics. Ellis lives
in Columbus, Ohio.
Hannah Templer is a queer cartoonist currently living in
Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked as a colorist, cover artist,
and interior artist on titles such as GLOW, Samurai Jack, Jem and
the Holograms, Captain Marvel, and Tomb Raider. She is also the
creator of Cosmoknights, an original graphic novel series published
in 2019 by Top Shelf Comics. Her work as a cover artist—with
clients like Dark Horse, IDW, Valiant, BOOM! Studios, Marvel,
HarperCollins, and Abrams Books—is as extensive as it is dynamic
and stunning.
“Flung Out of Space also provides a window into the nature of both
comics and prose publishing at the time, and the particular
challenges that faced a lesbian attempting to navigate that
landscape.”
*Comics Beat*
“Flung Out of Space is an impressively good comic. Which is funny,
because much of the book shows us Ms. Highsmith writing comics and
hating it. Yet this story of some of her life is easily one of the
best graphic novels of the year.”
*Comics Worth Reading*
“When Highsmith encounters the woman who will inspire her
touchstone lesbian novel “The Price of Salt” — a goddess in full
’50s feminine drag, radiantly filling up a full page — well. Nobody
could have done it better. . . Ellis and Templer take for granted
that women can create great comics. It’s queerness, not female
power, that they’re fighting for.”
*Etelka Lehoczky, the New York Times*
“Pat is thrilling, disturbing, charming, deeply unpleasant, all at
once. “Flung Out of Space” gives us room to detest her at her worst
and admire her at her best
*fnewsmagazine.com*
”It’s welcome addition to the queer graphic novel and lesbian
history canon. Like everything Grace Ellis writes, it just leaves
me wanting more.”
*Heather Hogan, Autostraddle*
“Ellis’ savvy writing combines with Templer’s stunning
illustrations to create a work that will intrigue and fascinate
comics fans.”
*Multiversity Comics*
“Highsmith devotees will appreciate this glimpse into how a life of
secrets extended beyond the pages of her fiction.”
*Publisher's Weekly*
“Ultimately, the book balances the inspiration for The Price of
Salt with the reality of the price Highsmith’s life took on her,
while acknowledging that she is far from a perfect person . . .
Ellis and Templer celebrate the work she was able to do, despite
those struggles, while also showing her to be the flawed person she
was. They see her as a human with talent, which is all any of us
can ask for.”
*Solrad*
“It is a critical, caring, funny, and heartbreaking story in which
the hands of the artist and author are visible and essential to
depicting Patricia Highsmith as a whole, complex person . . . Flung
Out of Space beautifully and deftly paints a portrait of a complex,
cruel, and charming woman who gave the world equally complex and
enticing stories. I was enraptured by this comic, by Ellis and
Templer’s brilliant approach to engaging with a flawed but beloved
subject, and, somewhat begrudgingly, by Pat herself.”
*Women Write About Comics*
“This graphic novel — the funny and sad tale of a great lesbian
writer’s struggle to find herself — is deftly told, and the spare
illustrations are infused with idiosyncrasy and energy.”
*New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice*
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