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$6.71The Story
Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone whos not one. As wellversed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his subject not only by what he writes, but how he writes itclearly, mellifluously, and beautifully. Our humble discipline is singularly lucky to have him telling its story.Chris WareIn a partnership spanning four decades, Franoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have become the preeminent power couple of cuttingedge graphic art. Their landmark magazine Raw, which first published artists such as Ben Katchor, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns, brought an avantgarde sensibility to comics and, along with Spiegelmans legendary graphic novel Maus, completely revolutionized the form. As art editor of the New Yorker since 1993, Mouly has remade the face of that venerable magazine with covers that capture the political and social upheavals of the last two decades, such as the blackonblack cover after 9/11 and the infamous Barack Obama fistbump cartoon. Based on exclusive interviews with Mouly, Spiegelman, and a pantheon of comics artistsincluding Dan Clowes, Barry Blitt, Anita Kunz, and Adrian TomineIn Love with Art is both an intimate portrait of Mouly and a rare, behindthescenes look at some of todays most iconic images. Through the prism of an uncommonly successful relationship, the book tells the story of one of the most remarkable artistic transformations of our time.Jeet Heers writing has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, Boston Globe, the American Prospect, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
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Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone whos not one. As wellversed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his subject not only by what he writes, but how he writes itclearly, mellifluously, and beautifully. Our humble discipline is singularly lucky to have him telling its story.Chris WareIn a partnership spanning four decades, Franoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have become the preeminent power couple of cuttingedge graphic art. Their landmark magazine Raw, which first published artists such as Ben Katchor, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns, brought an avantgarde sensibility to comics and, along with Spiegelmans legendary graphic novel Maus, completely revolutionized the form. As art editor of the New Yorker since 1993, Mouly has remade the face of that venerable magazine with covers that capture the political and social upheavals of the last two decades, such as the blackonblack cover after 9/11 and the infamous Barack Obama fistbump cartoon. Based on exclusive interviews with Mouly, Spiegelman, and a pantheon of comics artistsincluding Dan Clowes, Barry Blitt, Anita Kunz, and Adrian TomineIn Love with Art is both an intimate portrait of Mouly and a rare, behindthescenes look at some of todays most iconic images. Through the prism of an uncommonly successful relationship, the book tells the story of one of the most remarkable artistic transformations of our time.Jeet Heers writing has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, Boston Globe, the American Prospect, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
