{"product_id":"the-new-world-isbn-9781681372389","title":"The New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidian frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the mid-1980s, the British cartoonist Chris Reynolds has been  assembling a world all his own. On the surface, it seems much like ours:  a place of cool afternoon shadows and gently rolling hills, half-empty  trains and sleepy downtown streets. But the closer you look, the weirder  it gets. After losing a mysterious intergalactic war, Earth is no  longer in humanity’s control. Blandly friendly aliens lurk on the  margins and seem especially interested in the mining industry. The very  rules of time and space seem to have shifted: Mysterious figures  suddenly appear in childhood photos, family members disappear forever  without warning, power outages abound, and certain people gain the power  of flight. A helmeted man named Jimmy is somehow causing local  businesses to shutter and is being closely watched by the “trendy new  police force,” Rational Control. The world is being remade, but in what  image?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new collection, selected and designed by the acclaimed  cartoonist Seth, includes short stories, a novella, and the full-length  graphic novel \u003ci\u003eMauretania\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the ideal guide to all the  mystery and wonder of one of the most underappreciated cult classics in  the history of comics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis NYRC edition is a hardcover with foil stamping, debossing, full-color endpapers, and extra-thick paper, and features new scans of the original artwork.“Luxuriously published by New York Review Books, [\u003ci\u003eThe New World\u003c\/i\u003e ] gathers together between hard covers a variety of work by Chris Reynolds, the cult Welsh-born artist who remains both underrated and too little known. The result is a collection that isn’t only beautiful to look at and to hold; turning its pages, it strikes you that though these ineffably strange strips were written in another time, they work better in ours. Here, after all, is a world where technology must be treated with suspicion, workers perform random jobs whose nature is essentially pointless, and loneliness is the presiding spirit of the age….As the writer Ed Park suggests in his introduction, to call Reynolds’s comics black and white isn’t quite to do them justice; they’re more like black and white and black – and it’s in that extra layer of darkness that his genius may be found.” — Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Since the mid-1980s, British cartoonist Reynolds has self-published his tales of Mauretania, set some years after Earth has been taken over by intergalactic invaders. . . . Over the years, Reynolds’ stories have amassed an enthusiastic cult (including the alt-cartoonist Seth, who designed this volume); this handsome compilation is bound to expand his following immensely.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Reynolds’ stark black and white frames stop you in your tracks...It’s also mesmerising and hypnotic. You want to read it again once you’re done, and pore over its strangeness...Periodically books find their way to Bookmunch’s maw that we don’t expect and they blow our collective socks off. This is very definitely of that variety.” —Bookmunch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spend some time with Chris Reynolds’s \u003ci\u003eThe New World: Comics From Mauretania\u003c\/i\u003e. . . Stark illustrations will envelop you in their contrasts—the blanket blacks of the foreground, the impossible star-bright skies—and you’ll find yourself thumbing anxiously for the uncertain medium of shadows. The characters will elude you—transient, distant, largely muted in their emotions—and their struggles will become your own as you search for meaning in an increasingly mysterious world.” —Christopher Notarnicola, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Wales in 1960 and studied fine art at the  North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has worked as a filmmaker,  publicist, and art teacher but now devotes his time to drawing comics.  He lives in Poole in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth\u003c\/b\u003e is the cartoonist behind the comic book series \u003ci\u003ePalookaville\u003c\/i\u003e, and his comics have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Comics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/i\u003e. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, including on the covers of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCanadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also Lemony Snicket’s partner for the new young-adult series \u003ci\u003eAll the Wrong Questions\u003c\/i\u003e. Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife, Tania, and their two cats in an old house he has named Inkwell’s End.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Park\u003c\/b\u003e is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e and a former editor of the \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and for the Poetry Foundation. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 2008, was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for First Fiction. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He lives in New York City.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301119381733,"sku":"NP9781681372389","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681372389.jpg?v=1767740691","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-new-world-isbn-9781681372389","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}