Von Spatz by Anna Haifisch

Von Spatz by Anna Haifisch

Walt Disney is exhausted both physically and mentally. After a breakdown where he trashes his office, his wife Lilian brings him to a retreat to recover?the Von Spatz Rehabilitation Center. With a campus that includes studio buildings, a gallery, an art supply store, a hot dog booth, and a penguin pool, the clinic is a paradise for artists in crisis. There Disney meets Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg, and together, they embark on a regimen of relaxation and art therapy. Anna Haifisch looks at the fervent drive and crippling insecurities of the average artist and places those same issues on the shoulders of three celebrated 20th century artists. Part study of isolation, part tale of a begrudging camaraderie, daily life at the center mixes with reminiscences from the world outside. Wryly written, precisely composed, and glowingly colored, Von Spatz is a hilarious, heartwarming absurdist tale.

Based on Haifisch s own experiences as an illustrator in Germany and the US, Anna Haifisch s idiosyncratic comic strips chronicle the experiences of an artist s early years. Her story. The Artist has most recently run as a weekly serialized comic in Vice Magazine to critical acclaim, was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize, and is published by Breakdown Press. Haifisch founded the Millionaire s Club with other comic artists.

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ISBN 13	9781770463127
ISBN 10	1770463127
Title	Von Spatz
Author	Anna Haifisch
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Drawn and Quarterly
Year published	2018-03-13
Number of pages	68
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