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Author: Martin Vaughn-James ,
Jeet Heer
Publisher: New York Review Books
Imprint: New York Review Books
ISBN: 9781681374840
ISBN 10: 1681374846
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
His first two books, 'rediscovered' in this handsome edition, remain astonishing innovations. Vaughn-James takes the jejune language of cartooning - funny animals, advertising art - and torques it into the realm of the surreal. -Sean Rogers, The Globe and Mail Top 5 Graphic Novels of the Year This handsome repackaging of two classic titles by proto-graphic novelist Vaughn-James deserves to be considered essential reading by fans of the form. . . . This is a lovingly produced introduction to the greatest anarcho-comic-surrealist readers likely have never heard of (yet). -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"""His first two books, 'rediscovered' in this handsome edition, remain astonishing innovations. Vaughn-James takes the jejune language of cartooning – funny animals, advertising art – and torques it into the realm of the surreal."" —Sean Rogers, The Globe and Mail “Top 5 Graphic Novels of the Year” “This handsome repackaging of two classic titles by proto–graphic novelist Vaughn-James deserves to be considered essential reading by fans of the form. . . . This is a lovingly produced introduction to the greatest anarcho-comic-surrealist readers likely have never heard of (yet).” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
This handsome repackaging of two classic titles by proto-graphic novelist Vaughn-James deserves to be considered essential reading by fans of the form. . . . This is a lovingly produced introduction to the greatest anarcho-comic-surrealist readers likely have never heard of (yet). -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author Information
Martin Vaughn-James (1943-2009) was a British painter and cartoonist best known for his captivating, stylistically daring graphic novels-Elephant, The Projector, The Park, and The Cage-all published in the 1970s, when Vaughn-James lived in Canada. He contributed to numerous magazines during his lifetime and wrote two prose novels, Night Train and The Tomb of Zwaab. Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville. His most recent graphic novel, Clyde Fans, was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Globe and Mail. Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife, Tania, and their two cats in an old house he has named ""Inkwell's End."" Jeet Heer is a comics critic and the national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author of In Love with Art- Fran oise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman and Sweet Lechery- Reviews, Essays & Profiles. He divides his time between Toronto and Regina, Canada.
