The Projector and Elephant
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The Projector and Elephant by Martin Vaughn-James
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.
Martin Vaughn-James (1943-2009) was a painter and pioneering comics artist, and Coach House Press published three of his early works: The Projector (1971), The Park (1972), and The Cage (1975). He was born in England and spent much of his childhood in Australia before coming to Canada in the 1970s to pursue his breakthrough comics work. Vaughn-James is widely regarded as a forerunner in the graphic novel's evolution. Vaughn-James afterwards relocated to Belgium, where he concentrated on painting. Many personal exhibitions of his art were held in Brussels and Paris. Night Train (1989) and The Tomb of Zwaab (1991) are two works of prose fiction by Vaughn-James.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781681374840 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681374846 |
| Title | The Projector and Elephant |
| Author | Martin Vaughn-James |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2022-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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