Description: FREE shipping for orders of 8 or more items, and multi-item orders over $100! Brand new, unread, Near Mint/Near Mint+ condition range copy from distribution. One Owner. Please refer to photos. Comes sealed in acid-free bag with backing board.. Packaged between cardboard in a padded flat mailer (all made from 100% post- consumer recycled materials), by a one-man/single father independent shop. Combined shipping discounts available! Add another comic or small book for $0.50 ($1 for bigger stuff). Use the "Request Total" link above your cart if on a computer, or checkout normally and I will provide shipping discounts via refund! "ART COMIC" Issue #1 single issue Art Comic, beautifully self-published by Matthew Thurber (Swimmer's Group). description bellow is for the complete series:Matthew Thurber’s Art Comic is a blunt and hilarious assault on the swirling hot mess that is the art world. From sycophantic fans to duplicitous gallerists, fatuous patrons to self-aggrandizing art stars, he lampoons each and every facet of the eminently ridiculous industry of truth and beauty. Follow Cupcake, the Matthew Barney obsessive; Epiphany née Tiffany Clydesdale, the divinely inspired performance artist; Ivanhoe, a modern knight in search of artistic vengeance, and his squire, Turnbuckle. Each artist is more ridiculous than the last, yet they are tested and transformed by the even more absurd machinations of Thurber’s fantastical art world. Can the Free Little Pigs destroy this blighted system? Will “The Group” continue its indirect assassination of promising young artists? Can artistic integrity exist in this world amid the capitalist co-opting, petty rivalries, otherworldly portals, heavenly interventions, and murders at sea? Art Comic is brimming with references and cameos, outsize personalities and shuddering nonsense―Robert Rauschenberg smashes a beer bottle, Francesca Woodman, a wineglass. In the center of it all, Thurber’s twisted drawings and laugh-out-loud dialogue convey a complicated picture of an industry at the intersection of fantasy and reality. Part scathing condemnation, part irreverent appreciation, Thurber’s comics skewer the art world in a way only an art lover can. In this savage satire of the art world and its attendant academia, Thurber presents the intertwined stories of Boris, Cupcake, Ivan, and Tiffany young undergrads at a typical big city art academy. Their teacher, Password, simultaneously brutalizes their work, while lamenting his own non-production, and longs for the Golden years of his Youth. Funny and smart, like all of Thurber’s work. Recommended! 28 half-legal pages, full color covers, black and white interiors. (Swimmers Group)
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Grass Valley, California
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Artist/Writer: Matthew Thurber
Character: Wilfred of Ivanhoe
Tradition: US Comics
Series Title: Art Comic
Publisher: Swimmers Group
Intended Audience: Viewer Discretion Advised
Story Title: Art Comic
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Comic Book
Format: Single Issue
Issue Number: 1
Language: English
Era: Modern Age (1985-Now)
Style: Black & White
Features: 1st Edition, Boarded, Collector's Edition, First Printing
Genre: Allegory, Humor/Satire, Underground, Weird
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
