Wild Party
Descriere
"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord."
- The New York Times
Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets.
Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force."
Despre autor
Itzhak Avraham Zeev Spiegelman, cunoscut profesional ca Art Spiegelman, este un caricaturist, editor și promotor al benzilor desenate de origine polonezo-americană, cel mai cunoscut pentru romanul grafic Maus. Activitatea sa de co-editor la revistele de benzi desenate Arcade și Raw a fost influentă, iar din 1992 a petrecut un deceniu ca artist colaborator pentru The New Yorker.
