
Projector and Elephant
by Jeet Heer
Title:
Projector and Elephant
Author:
Jeet Heer
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
212 pages, Black and white illustrations throughout
Publisher:
New York Review Books
ISBN-13:
9781681374840
EAN:
9781681374840
Publication Date:
12/04/2022
Classifications:
Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Manga, Cartoons
Weight (g):
1448
Dimensions (mm):
227 x 301 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.










