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- Mascots is a collection of vignettes and brief impressionistic scenes that concentrate on moments, characters, settings, and ideas. Many of these vignettes are independent; a cast of characters who wander throughout the book intruding upon others. Despite seemingly disparate parts, themes recur over and over in Mascots, and when taken together as a whole form a world that is strange, sad, funny, and familiar. Mascots are exaggerated, ridiculous representatives, giving form to the abstract. They don’t give this form in a subtle way; they’re surreal magnifications, explosions of the thing they represent. The recurring characters in Mascots are like this, but so are the vignettes themselves. In the world of Mascots, failure is everywhere. There is failure to connect, failure to communicate, and failure to find meaning, but despite that, there are moments of hope, transcendence, and even happy endings.
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Ray Fenwick is an artist, illustrator and typographic thing-maker living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. A former improv comedian and theater school dropout, Ray now occupies himself making drawings, comics and patterns for people like Blue Q, CMT, If'n Books, Nickelodeon, Urban Outfitters, and others. He regularly appears in Fantagraphics' flagship anthology, MOME.
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“One of the leading progenitors of the hand scrawl, Ray Fenwick, is a designer and illustrator known for black-and-white samplers of wise and weird ‘ideas.’ These contemporary illuminated manuscripts are a new twist on the old art of lettering.”
- Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review
“Fenwick somehow manages to combine baroque ornamentality with crafty handiwork. It’s almost like controlled outsider art. And he’s so unfailingly funny.”
- Marian Bantjes
“In addition to a neat bit of ventriloquism, Fenwick shows off dazzling visual originality in his eye-spinning use of pattern and lettering... The lettering melds with its environment as surely as letters in an illuminated manuscript blend with their angels and acanthus leaves.”
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- Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review
“Fenwick somehow manages to combine baroque ornamentality with crafty handiwork. It’s almost like controlled outsider art. And he’s so unfailingly funny.”
- Marian Bantjes
“In addition to a neat bit of ventriloquism, Fenwick shows off dazzling visual originality in his eye-spinning use of pattern and lettering... The lettering melds with its environment as surely as letters in an illuminated manuscript blend with their angels and acanthus leaves.”
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- PublisherFantagraphics Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 160699400X
- ISBN 13 9781606994009
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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