Masterpiece Comics (Signed First Edition)

R. Sikoryak (Robert Sikoryak)

ISBN 10: 1897299842 / ISBN 13: 9781897299845

Published by Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, 2009

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy without a jacket. A clean, unmarked copy. SIGNED and dated (in year of publication) on title page with a doodle (as pictured).

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1602

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Masterpiece Comics (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897299842
• ISBN 13: 9781897299845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Graphic Novels
  • Graphic Novels

About this title

Synopsis

HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC COMICS

Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In "Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is reimagined as a foppish Little Nemo; and Camus's Stranger becomes a brooding, chain-smoking Golden Age Superman. Other source material includes Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, bubblegum wrappers, superhero comics, kid cartoons, and more.

Sikoryak's classics have appeared in landmark anthologies such as RAW and Drawn & Quarterly, all of which are collected in Masterpiece Comics, along with brilliant new graphic literary satires. His drawings have appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as in The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad, and Nickelodeon Magazine.

About the Author

R. Sikoryak is the cartoonist of Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump. His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Onion, and MAD, as well as on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Sikoryak teaches in the illustration department at Parsons School of Design and previously at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Since 1997, he has presented his live cartoon slide show series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada. He lives in New York City with his wife, Kriota Willberg.