McCay by Thierry Smolderen
Get ready for a dizzying dive into the "McCay Dimension" with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination. McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay - in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton. Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both...
"A brain-bending book.. peculiarly compelling" - SciFi Now
Thierry Smolderen was born in 1954 in Brussels. He has been writing comics since the mid 1980s. A married father of two, Thierry Smolderen has lived in Angouli?1/2me since 1994. He teaches scriptwriting and the history of European comics at the i?1/2cole Europi?1/2enne. Jean-Philippe Bramanti was born in 1971 and drew his first comics at age 12. After earning a Baccalaureate, he studied at Luminy, Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, then for three years at the BD workshop of the School of Fine Arts of Angouleme.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785868856 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785868853 |
| Title | McCay |
| Author | Thierry Smolderen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Titan Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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