The Wendy Award by Walter Scott
Everybody s favourite party girl Wendy is so back. When Wendy is nominated for the coveted National FoodHut Contemporary Art Prize alongside her friend Winona, all of her millennial dreams seem to be coming true. She lives a post-pandemic, polyamorous fine artist s lifestyle in the big city and basks in the glory of national attention with the success of her popular comic strip, 'Wanda'. But not even achieving bona fide art star fame can hide the truth: a never-ending struggle with imposter syndrome. After she cracks in an online interview and gets dragged in the comments section, she heads straight to a local watering hole to drown her sorrows. Several lines of coke, too many drinks, and one all night rager with fans later, Wendy is ready to curse Gen Z and confront her addictions. All the while, she and Winona drift apart as a younger Indigenous artist wedges herself between them. Will Wendy s commitment to change wind up short-lived? The Wendy Award incisively skewers the art world with its corporate overlords, performative activism, generational wealth, and weaponized therapy speak. A showcase of Walter Scott s deft wit and social commentary, The Wendy Award asks the hard questions, like Do they still give awards to men? Should we be grateful for the exposure? and What exactly is Big Auntie Energy?
'Gleeful and witty, this is also a tender account of a woman gnawed by self-doubt' - James Smart, The Guardian. 'Wendy skewers art school and young adulthood alike via the lens of the titular protagonist.' - Kasia Pilat, New York Times. 'Scott manages a rare thing: the sharpness of his satire doesn t preclude a realistic rendering of personhood, and the seeming flatness opens up, at every turn, to a depth of feeling.'- Naomi Fry, The New Yorker
Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working in comics, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture. His graphic novel series Wendy chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical imagining of the contemporary art world. Scott's eponymous party girl has previously been featured in three graphic novels Wendy; Wendy's Revenge; and Wendy: Master of Art as well as in Canadian Art; Art in America; New Yorker; The New York Times; and MoMA Magazine. Scott was nominated for the Sobey Art Award, considered to be the preeminent fine art award in Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781770467415 |
| ISBN 10 | 1770467416 |
| Title | The Wendy Award |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Series | Wendy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Year published | 2024-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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