About this Item
First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A tight unread copy, which has a bruise to upper corners. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end page, and he has also drawn an illustration of the main character. Issued without jacket. Illustrated color boards. Shipped in sturdy box. Smoke-free shop. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. Graphic novels. Seller Inventory # 0910-3
Bibliographic Details
Title: Market Day (Signed First Edition)
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
A TIMELESS MEDITATION ON ART AND COMMERCE SEEN THROUGH THE LIFE OF AN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH RUG MAKER
Mendleman's life goes through an upheaval when he discovers that he can no longer earn a living for his growing family doing the work that defines him―making well-crafted rugs by hand. A proud artisan, he takes his donkey-drawn cart to the market only to be turned away when the distinctive shop he once sold to now stocks only cheaply manufactured merchandise. As the realities of the marketplace sink in, Mendleman unravels. James Sturm draws a quiet, reflective, and beautiful portrait of eastern Europe in the early 1900s–bringing to life the hustle and bustle of an Old World marketplace on the brink of industrialization. Market Day is an ageless tale of how economic and social forces can affect a single life.
An award-winning cartoonist of the books Golem's Mighty Swing, James Sturm's America, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, and Adventures in Cartooning, Sturm is a true visionary, having cofounded the Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger and the Center for Cartoon Studies, the country's premier cartooning school.
James Sturm is the author of several award-winning graphic novels for children and adults, including James Sturm's America, The Golem's Mighty Swing and Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. He is also the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies and the National Association for Comics Art Educators. He created Adventures in Cartooning with collaborators Alexis Frederic-Frost and Andrew Arnold. Sturm, his wife, and two daughters live in White River Junction, Vermont.
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