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Overview* This book reveals the last well-kept secret of much-beloved icon of American literature Flannery O'Connor's creative life: she did not set out to be a fiction writer, but a cartoonist. Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons is the first book devoted to the author's work in the visual arts. It emphasizes O'Connor's most prolific period as a cartoonist, drawing for her high school and college publications in the early 1940s. While many of these images lampoon student life and the impact of World War II on the home front, something much more is happening. O'Connor learns how to set up and carry a joke visually, how to write a good one-liner and set it off against a background of complex visual narration. She develops and asserts her taste for a stock set of character types, attitudes, situations, exaggerations, and grotesques, and she learns how to present them not to distort the truth, but to expose her vision of it. She worked in both pen-and-ink and linoleum cuts, and her rough-hewn technique combined with her acidic observations form a visual precursor to her prose. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Flannery O'Connor , Kelly Gerald , Kelly GeraldPublisher: Fantagraphics Imprint: Fantagraphics Dimensions: Width: 26.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.772kg ISBN: 9781606994795ISBN 10: 1606994794 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 02 July 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsHere are the early ejaculations from the primordial form of what was to become one of the great American writers. Here is Flannery O'Connor as she is formulating her unique vision of America... I personally wish to thank Fantagraphics for... publishing this book, if for no other reason than to put Flannery O'Connor back into the pop culture discussion. --Daniel Elkin The images rendered in black-and-white in a stylistically wobbly hand demonstrate the thinly veiled dark humor and snappy dialogue O Connor would come to perfect in her short stories. She was often the butt of her own jokes: the none-too-perfect girl. . . An engrossing and entertaining look at the blossoming talents of one of literature s great iconoclasts. Author InformationFlannery O'Connor was born in 1925 and died in 1964 after spending her life in Georgia. Barry Moser (born 1940) is a renowned artist, most famous as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature, including Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass, The Bible and Moby-Dick. He is a Professor in Residence and Printer to the College at Smith College. His works have been displayed in such places as the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, Harvard, and the Library of Congress. He lives in Western Massachusetts. An independent scholar specializing in the literature of the American South, Kelly Gerald holds B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in English as well as a second Master's degree in philosophy and religion. Her previous publications include work on Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy. Kelly works as senior writer-editor and director of media relations for the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Washington, D.C. and part-time as an Associate Professor of English for University of Maryland University College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |