The projector and elephant, Martin Vaughn-James
In English, 200 pages, hardcover, 22.76 x 2.46 x 29.79 cm, New York Review Comics - NYRC, April 2022
Two surreal and experimental comic stories about technology, corporatization and alienation in the modern world, created by an innovator in the world of comics.
In 1968, British artist and writer Martin Vaughn-James emigrated to Canada. Over the next eight years, he produced some of the most mesmerizing and creative works in comics, light years ahead of his contemporaries. Among them were Elephant and The Projector, interconnected graphic novels that guide the reader (and an ordinary man with glasses) through landscapes built from everyday life and nightmare. Congested highways, free-falling horses, vast abandoned urban areas, colossal businessmen, demented cartoon animals, and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James's prophetic vision of society's shift from the natural to the artificial world.
Put together for the first time in a single volume, conceived and edited by Seth and featuring an introduction by Jeet Heer, Elephant and The Projector serve as a reminder that we have yet to achieve.
