{"product_id":"the-projector-and-elephant-isbn-9781681374840","title":"The Projector and Elephant","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo surreal graphic novels about technology, corporatization, and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Projector\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether for the first time in a single volume, designed and edited by Seth and with an introduction by Jeet Heer, \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Projector\u003c\/i\u003e stand as a reminder that we have yet to catch up to Vaughn-James.\"His first two books, 'rediscovered' in this handsome edition, remain astonishing innovations. Vaughn-James takes the jejune language of cartooning – funny animals, advertising art – and torques it into the realm of the surreal.\" —Sean Rogers, \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003e“Top 5 Graphic Novels of the Year”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This handsome repackaging of two classic titles by proto–graphic novelist Vaughn-James deserves to be considered essential reading by fans of the form. . . . This is a lovingly produced introduction to the greatest anarcho-comic-surrealist readers likely have never heard of (yet).” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cb\u003eMartin Vaughn-James\u003c\/b\u003e (1943–2009) was a British painter and cartoonist best known for his captivating, stylistically daring graphic novels—\u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Projector\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Park\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Cage—\u003c\/i\u003eall published in the 1970s, when Vaughn-James lived in Canada. He contributed to numerous magazines during his lifetime and wrote two prose novels,\u003ci\u003e Night Train\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tomb of Zwaab\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth\u003c\/b\u003e is the cartoonist behind the comic book series \u003ci\u003ePalookaville\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent graphic novel, \u003ci\u003eClyde Fans\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\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\u003eJeet Heer\u003c\/b\u003e is a comics critic and the national affairs correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays \u0026amp; Profiles\u003c\/i\u003e. He divides his time between Toronto and Regina, Canada.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233732112613,"sku":"NP9781681374840","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681374840.jpg?v=1767741093","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-projector-and-elephant-isbn-9781681374840","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}