{"product_id":"the-projector-and-elephant-martin-vaughn-james-9781681374840","title":"The Projector and Elephant","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo surreal graphic novels about technology, corporatization, and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1968, the British artist and writer Martin Vaughn-James emigrated to Canada. Over the next eight years, he proceeded to produce some of the most mesmerizing and inventive works in comics, light-years ahead of his contemporaries. Among them were \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Projector\u003c\/i\u003e, linked graphic novels that guide the reader (and a bespectacled Everyman) through landscapes built out of both the everyday and the nightmarish. Jam-packed superhighways, plummeting horses, vast urban wastelands, colossal businessmen, demented cartoon animals, and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James's prophetic vision of society's turn away from the natural world to the artificial. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether for the first time in a single volume, designed and edited by Seth and with an introduction by Jeet Heer, \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Projector\u003c\/i\u003e stand as a reminder that we have yet to catch up to Vaughn-James.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Vaughn-James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681374846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681374840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 11.79w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/07\/2022","brand":"Martin Vaughn-James","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046487027967,"sku":"9781681374840","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2cb32aa1-63fb-444d-b897-f19f47f5422b.jpg?v=1684984830","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-projector-and-elephant-martin-vaughn-james-9781681374840","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}