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Hieronymus Bosch meets Richard Scary. A stunning art book which unfolds into a 24 foot long cartoon landscape in which . A paradoxical mix of terrifying social commentary and cartooning fun! A single drawing: a world overflowing with hundreds of mini-narratives with armed maniacs, rampaging crowds, chaotic policemen, a tree-house of women, a forest of literal tree-huggers, and hordes of shoppers, frenzied, inspired, and dense. 8,433 characters, 3,546 vehicles, 1,847 buildings, 763 cartoon icons, 526 corporate billboards, 189 religious figures, 25 parade floats, 1 super-dildo, a junkyard purgatory, a porno strip-mall, and more. . . A free-flowing visual fantasia. Corporate culture and the mass media have finally come unglued.Product Identifiers
PublisherBuenaventura Press
ISBN-100976684837
ISBN-139780976684831
eBay Product ID (ePID)56973705
Product Key Features
Number of Pages23 Pages
Publication NameElvis Road
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTechniques / Drawing
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt
AuthorXavier Robel, Helge Reumann
Dimensions
Item Length9 in
Item Width12.5 in
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ReviewsThe true bleeding edge of comics. The Swiss duo offers up a dense portrait. Unfolding as a single, epic side-scrolling page, Elvis Road depicts a terrifying and beautiful world in which a corporate culture and the mass media have finally come unglued. -- Bart Beaty, art critic, Robel and Reumann have created a drawn virus of big swift energy and obsession. We observe, from above, a society in frenzy. charging headlong in a lemming march of catastrophic proportions; a seething river of evil tortured pixie humanity. -- Gary Panter, artist and designer|9780976684831|
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