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AN ANGOULÊME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD

The Making Of is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, The Wrong Place. With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside.

Pieterjan is invited to the festival as an honored guest. From the moment he arrives, things start going wrong, and since no one seems ready to step in, Pieterjan takes over the show. He decides to build a giant garden gnome as a symbol of Flemish identity, but the construction process brings buried tensions to the surface as the other artists become jealous of Pieterjan's authority. In The Making Of, Evens delves deep into the petty tensions, small misunderstandings, and deadpan humor that pervade modern relationships.

With a keen eye for the subtleties of body language, Evens's The Making Of builds on the iconic visual style showcased in The Wrong Place. Sweeping watercolors jump off the page, surrealist scenery intermingles with crowds of people, and small suburban plot homes have never looked so lovely.

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Brecht Evens is a cartoonist, visual artist, and musician based in Belgium. His first graphic novel in English, The Wrong Place, was awarded the Prix de l'Audace at the Angoulême Comics Festival.

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Shortly after his new show successfully opens, city artist Peterson is whisked off to little Beerpoele to build the centerpiece of the town’s first biennial. The organizer admits as he drives him there that the other artists involved are all townsfolk. One really is a kind of artist. The others . . . mean to be helpful. Peterson decides upon a monumental installation, a garden gnome three-stories high. It gets built, though not without some grueling all-nighters. Meanwhile, sadly funny little dramas swirl around it. Evens uses a dazzling ink-and-brush technique and eschews ruled borders to tell a small story impressively and prettily. Each character’s form and dialogue appear in a particular shade, and art history is tellingly referenced by, for instance, a sad-sack character resembling Munch’s screamer, another accoutered like a Picasso Blue Period Pierrot, and a splash-page variation on the unicorn tapestries in the Cloisters in New York City. Evens writes as cannily as he draws, producing a deceptively nonchalant, deeply humane, and fancifully realistic comedy-drama reminiscent of the films of Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer. --Ray Olson

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
  • ISBN 10 0224097334
  • ISBN 13 9780224097338
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