SOUTHBANK CENTRE

Cult Fiction: Art and Comics*

Paul Gravett, Emma Mahony
340 x 242 mm 96 pp softback
Fully illustrated
978 1 85332 260 0
£16.99

http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/isbn/9781853322600

Cult FictionCult Fiction explores the reciprocal relationship between comics and art, foregrounding links between the two genres where current social and political issues are aired in frank visual narratives. The language of comics and graphic novels has long influenced contemporary artists. The comics artists and graphic novelists represented here are mainly from the generation of independent author-draughtsmen, whose subject matter tends to be offbeat and transgressive – and sometimes controversial. An essay by Paul Gravett illuminates the long-standing love affair between fine art and comics, while Hayward Curator, Emma Mahony sets the contemporary context in her introductory essay. A specially commissioned picture-essay by Kim L. Pace, together with drawn self-portraits and questionnaires by the contributing artists, make this a unique publication.

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