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The Projector : a rediscovered masterwork / Martin Vaughn-James ; [designed by Seth] ; [introduction by Jeet Heer]. Elephant : a rediscovered masterwork / Martin Vaughn-James ; [designed by Seth] ; [introduction by Jeet Heer].

Vaughn-James, Martin, 1943-2009 (author,, artist.). Seth, 1962- (book designer.). Heer, Jeet, (writer of introduction.). Vaughn-James, Martin, 1943-2009 Projector. (Added Author). Vaughn-James, Martin, 1943-2009 Elephant. (Added Author).

Summary:
"Two surreal graphic novels about technology, corporatization, and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator. In 1968, the British artist and writer Martin Vaughn-James emigrated to Canada. Over the next eight years, he proceeded to produce some of the most mesmerizing and inventive works in comics, light-years ahead of his contemporaries. Among them were Elephant and The Projector, linked graphic novels that guide the reader (and a bespectacled Everyman) through landscapes built out of both the everyday and the nightmarish. Jam-packed superhighways, plummeting horses, vast urban wastelands, colossal businessmen, demented cartoon animals, and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James's prophetic vision of society's turn away from the natural world to the artificial. Together for the first time in a single volume, designed and edited by Seth and with an introduction by Jeet Heer, Elephant and The Projector stand as a reminder that we have yet to catch up to Vaughn-James."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781681374840
  • ISBN: 1681374846
  • Physical Description: 127, 82 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Two titles bound back-to-back and inverted.
Target Audience Note:
Suggested for mature readers.
Subject: Perception > Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre: Graphic novels.
Upside-down books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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