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Synopsis
Wonderfully offbeat, the stories of Mandy Ord's "one-eyed girl" reveal with poetic power the intimate, mundane, and extraordinary moments in everyday urban life
From spammers who take over your e-mail identity and dealing with a dead rat, to putting out flames in a train station garbage bin and how to warm your feet in winter, the experiences and reflections of Mandy Ord's one-eyed girl will put readers in touch with what really matters.
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About the Author
Mandy Ord is a graphic novelist and comic artist whose strongly autobiographical, heartfelt work has been featured in such anthologies as The Tango Collection and Top Shelf: Under the Big Top. Her first graphic novel was Rooftops.
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In her autobiographical comics, Australian cartoonist Ord depicts herself as a black-clad neurotic with one huge eye. That seems fitting for an artist with a singular vision like hers, focused squarely on finding significance—or at least humor—in quotidian events. When she’s not at her drawing board, toiling at her job at a coffee shop, or hanging with her girlfriend, Ord might be negotiating dicey encounters in the subway, desperately searching for a parking space, or panicking after a spammer hijacks her e-mail account; but unlike the rest of us, she turns these everyday hassles into the stuff of art. The setting might be Melbourne, but the milieu is recognizable to urban dwellers everywhere. The ugly beauty of her comically grotesque drawings imparts a bit of a Lynda Barry vibe (especially when she’s portraying hilariously deranged canines), but Ord is defiantly her own gal: her thick-lined, ink-dense graphics, reminiscent of linoleum prints, have a confidence that belies her often-timid on-page persona. She’s definitely a creator to keep an eye (or two, if you’ve got them) on. --Gordon Flagg
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library book with appropriate stamps, stickers and markings. Covers with wear and curling to corners with tearing noted to head of time repaired with book tape. Pages clean and unmarked. Wonderfully offbeat, the stories of Mandy Ord's "one-eyed girl" reveal with poetic power the intimate, mundane, and extraordinary moments in everyday urban life From spammers who take over your e-mail identity and dealing with a dead rat, to putting out flames in a train station garbage bin and how to warm your feet in winter, the experiences and reflections of Mandy Ord's one-eyed girl will put readers in touch with what really matters. Seller Inventory # 13337
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. very clean softcover. no marks. clean text. solid binding. very light wear. ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs. Seller Inventory # mon0000175392