Masterpiece Comics
$46.41
- Hardcover
64 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2009
Summary
HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC COMICS
Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak’s parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781897299845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1897299842 |
| Author: | R. Sikoryak |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 624g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 234mm x 310mm |
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Critics Review
Disconcerting and fascinating … A canny fusion of overlapping fictional legacies.
“A provocative collision.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A brilliant parable about literature,history and what telling stories tells us about ourselves.” —Toronto Star
“Disconcerting and fascinating … A canny fusion of overlapping fictional legacies.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
R. Sikoryak
R. Sikoryak is the cartoonist of Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump. His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Onion, and MAD, as well as on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Sikoryak teaches in the illustration department at Parsons School of Design and previously at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Since 1997, he has presented his live cartoon slide show series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada.
He lives in New York City with his wife, Kriota Willberg.
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