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Pandemic portraits: Heroes, victims, and villains of a divided America.
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Living and Dying in America

A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022

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  • Hardcover

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    21 October 2022

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Summary

The Washington Post, Best Graphic Novels of 2022

Living & Dying in America includes many lovingly drawn portraits of those who died in the pandemic and of those who displayed extraordinary strength, decency, courage, and endurance. But Brodner does not ignore those who perpetuated the pandemic in word or deed: he also etches in acid caricature those public servants and private entrepreneurs who preyed upon the public, spread lies, and aided the virus’ spr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781683965534
ISBN-10:1683965531
Author:Steve Brodner
Publisher:Fantagraphics
Imprint:Fantagraphics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:21 October 2022
Weight:1.14kg
Dimensions:172mm x 172mm
Living and Dying in America by Steve Brodner - ISBN: 9781683965534
172 × 172 mm
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Critics Review

Living & Dying in America continues a heritage of the artist as witness–yet it transcends that heritage by combining the truth of contemporary ideas with the idealism of contemporary thought.– “PRINT Magazine”

About The Author

Steve Brodner

Steve Brodner is an award-winning caricature artist, political cartoonist, educator, and author; publications such as The New York Times, Esquire, and The New Yorker feature his work. The 2011 Gold medal in the editorial category from the Society of Illustrators counts among his many accolades. He currently lives in New York City where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Edward Sorel is a working artist for nearly seven decades who has carried the incisive approach of his early satirical and political cartooning through to high-profile illustrative and caricature work. His distinctive looping, scrawling ink lines and supporting watercolor have since covered and illustrated nearly every major American magazine journal (Esquire, Time, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Forbes) with long residencies at the National Lampoon, the Village Voice, The Nation, Vanity Fair, Penthouse and The New Yorker. He has published over a dozen books of cartoons, comics, journalism, memoir and works for children including a collection of his political comics strips, Just When You Though Things Couldn’t Get Worse, and his latest book, Mary Astor’s Purple Diary. He lives in New York City.

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