Two surreal, experimental graphic novels about technology, corporatization, and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator.
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.
"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)
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