Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working in comics, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture. His comic series Wendy chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical imagining of the contemporary art world. Wendy has been published in two volumes by Koyama Press and was featured in Canadian Art, and Art in America, and on the New Yorker website, and was selected for the 2016 edition of Best American Comics. Scott completed an MFA at the University of Guelph in 2018. Wendy, Master of Art is, as far as you know, very loosely based on this experience.
"I am blown away by Walter Scott's Wendy." --Zadie Smith "As well
as being very funny and acute, Wendy, Master of Art is also weirdly
touching. For all her faults, [Walter Scott's] heroine is intensely
likable." --Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
"[In Wendy, Master of Art, ] Scott manages a rare thing: the
sharpness of his satire doesn't preclude a realistic rendering of
personhood, and the seeming flatness opens up, at every turn, to a
depth of feeling.... His mastery of his characters' faces and
gestures is also wonderful, his line quick and sure and
expressive."
--The New Yorker "I thought I regretted not going to art school
until a friend introduced me to Walter Scott's Wendy comic book
series... Wendyskewers art school and young adulthood alike via the
lens of [its] titular protagonist."
--New York Times
"The funniest graphic novel of the year." --The Guardian, Best of
2020 "Funny, poignant, and scary. Scott makes you laugh and then
rips your heart out." --Lit Hub
"Despite the signs that she might be growing up, Wendy's
rubber-band body and flailing limbs still draw laughs like a
seasoned physical comedian." --Quill & Quire, 2020 Books of the
Year "With Wendy, Walter Scott gives readers the life of an artist
suffused with too many hangovers, too much screen-time, and too
much self-consciousness--sordid, hilarious, and compassionate."
--Globe & Mail
"Whether you see yourself or your friends in the Wendyverse or not,
and no matter your proximity to the art world, Wendy comics are
painfully relatable and incontrovertibly hilarious in their honest
account of life as a young person." --Canadian Art "[Scott]
achieves what all my favorite artworks-about-art do, which is to
show that art, identity, and politics are fluid parts of being
alive, informing one another in mysterious and fascinating
ways."
--Garage "Scott's satire is sharp and his slapstick refined: even
the merest doodle is side-splitting."
--Globe and Mail, Best Books of 2020 "Scott takes advantage of the
many hidden possibilities of the comic medium for a story that
could be told no other way... Wendy, Master of Art is a great pick
for students, ex-students or anyone who likes to laugh."
--Emma Levy, Shelf Awareness "[Walter Scott is] a skillfully
economic storyteller with a sharp wit, especially sending up
academic art-speak."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Wendy's personal life remains
chaotic, hilarious, and relatable..." --Quill & Quire
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