Be a Nose!: IntroductionMcSweeneys, 2009 - Caricatures and cartoons "My best drawings have often been on stray scraps of paper, falling somewhere between unconscious doodles and focused drawings ... When McSweeney's actually offered to produce a large file folder of my scraps, the counterintuitive idea of replicating my detritus goaded me into presenting some sketchbooks that had enough momentum to go on for more than a few pages. One, from 1979, is here called "BE." The most recent one, from 2007, catalyzed this current folly when it stumbled in the world as part of McSweeney's 27. It's here called "A." A favorite sketchbook from 1983, "NOSE," completes the set"--Introductory pamphlet "Liner Notes" by Art Spiegelman, p. [2] of Introduction. |
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... taping the corners back into all 7500 copies . It became an impromptu gender - studies lab experiment : everyone was free to choose their task , but within a half hour all the males were at my table ripping off corners ; the females ...
... taping the corners back into all 7500 copies . It became an impromptu gender - studies lab experiment : everyone was free to choose their task , but within a half hour all the males were at my table ripping off corners ; the females ...
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1959 HORROR CHEAPIE 2007 sketchbook ACCURATE EVOCATION appeared ART SPIEGELMAN artist AUTOPHOBIA BEATNIK COFFEE BEATNIK COFFEE SHOP BECOMING A MULTIPLE blank books Book Review BUCKET OF BLOOD bulged cartoon cartoonists Charles Burns CHICKS childhood chores CLAY WHILE MUTTERING COFFEE SHOP YEARNS comics comix complete my private CORMAN'S 1959 HORROR corners cover CREATIVE PROCESS DAMN Detail DIM-WITTED BUSBOY doodles drawing table DWARVES entry FEES PAID FLAILING DESPERATELY Françoise gesture by shaming Giorgio Graphics HAND AT SCULPTURE HATS Jose Muñoz keep LUMP OF CLAY magazine Mariscal MAUS McSweeney's 27 MEN IN HATS Milan MOMENT IN ROGER movie MULTIPLE MURDERER MURDERER HE TRIES neighbor's neurotic NOSE notebook Passion of Saint Perugian Polaroid POSTAGE AND FEES private gesture published RAW contributor ripping ROGER CORMAN'S 1959 Saint Sluggo scraps of paper scrawled SCREAMING seen STANFORD started STUFF Susan Moore TRIES HIS HAND UNBIDDEN underground village VLADEKS WOKE