Nufonia Must Fall is a graphic novel by Eric San better known as Kid Koala, the master turntablist from Montreal. I've found this book last weeek while wasting time in a local bookstore.
What, Kid Koala wrote a book?! And a CD is included with it? Weeee!

Before going on, here are the stats:
Softcover
Black & White
29.95 CAD/24.95 USD
339 Pages
Published by: ECW Press (Toronto), 2003
ISBN: 1-55022-558-8

The novel itself is excellent, but not really original. I mean, I'm sure there are a couple of Hollywood movies with the same theme. It's the story of a music-lover robot living in Z City (well ok, that's not very Hollywood-like) who gets fired from various jobs because the owners keep buying super-efficient and super-fast robots to replace him. Meanwhile, the unnamed robot subscribes to a love song writing contest and meets a woman. Follows romantic and sentimental scenes, where they both try to learn about each other. That is, until the robot discovers that the woman he's in love with had robotics and electrical engineering PhDs (from the Huddsucker Institute of Technology) and actually designed the job-stealing super-robots. Our cute robot flees to a coffeshop, gets depressed but can't forget the woman. I won't say more to avoid spoiling the end, which is great even if it's kinda cheesy.
There is absolutely no text, except for the neon signs and the like in the background. The "coloring" is done by Louisa Schabas but the only colors in the whole book are different shades of gray and black. But still, she did an excellent job, especially with the lighting.

The included CD. I couldn't wait to hear it because I loved Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Kid Koala's first solo CD (Ninja Tune, 2000). I was surprised to see it was only 16-minutes long and had 10 tracks. Nevermind, I said to myself, it's a soundtrack and you're supposed to listen to it while reading the novel. I was expecting DJ-style scratch & turntablism since it's what Eric San/Kid Koala usually does. Only this time, it was simply slow piano and a few sound effects over it. Reminds me of Erik Satie. Kid Koala then scratched a bit on his own music. A very stealthy scratch, you'd think your CD player is broken. The result is a very original classical beat that your grandmother may not like.

All in all, it's a great book. You may think it's a bit costly for a textless black & white graphic novel with a 16-minutes CD included with it, but it's worth it. Really.