Wendy
$43.85
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
The outrageously funny and painfully relatable satire of an aspiring artist and millennial culture
Walter Scott’s Wendy comics have become a critical sensation, with rave reviews in The New Yorker and The Guardian, and an appearance in the Best American Comics anthology. Learn Wendy’s origin story as Scott hilariously plumbs millennial culture, creative ennui, and the nepotism of the art world’s institutions.
Wendy’s an aspiring arti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770464841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770464840 |
| Author: | Scott Walter |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Wendy |
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Critics Review
“I thought I regretted not going to art school until a friend introduced me to Walter Scott’s Wendy comic book series… Wendyskewers art school and young adulthood alike via the lens of [its] titular protagonist.” –New York Times
“I am blown away by Walter Scott’s Wendy series.” –Zadie Smith
“Wendy’s lust for life is inseparable from her knee-jerk self-destruction.” –The New Yorker
“Winningly messy.” –The Guardian
“The art school party girl who is perhaps the real voice of our generation (sorry Lena Dunham).” –Vice
Scott Walter
Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working in comics, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture. His graphic novel series Wendy chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical imagining of the contemporary art world. Scott’s eponymous party girl has previously been featured in three graphic novels: Wendy, Wendy’s Revenge, and Wendy: Master of Art, as well as in Canadian Art, Art in America, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MoMA Magazine. Scott has been nominated or longlisted for the Ignatz Awards, Canada Reads, the Believer Book Award, the Doug Wright Award, and the Sobey Art Award, considered to be the preeminent fine art award in Canada.
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