Carol Swain is one of Britain's finest comics artists, and with Giraffes In My Hair, written by Bruce Paley, we have her most substantial work to date*. It is a memoir of Paley's "life in the tumultuous '60s and '70s." Starting out in 1967 with hitchhiking and moving on through dropping acid, Disneyland, Chicago '68, Black Panthers, Mardi Gras in New Orleans and then into the '70s, and Max's Kansas City, doing drugs with Johnny Thunders and punk rock "nihilism." Unsurprisingly, there are quite a few bad decisions and scrapes with the law along the way. All these tales are then rendered in Carol Swain's exquisite, understated and finely tuned pencil rendering that are a pleasure to behold. We're going to post some pages from this soon, for tghose who want to see before clicking,
*(2009; when this listing was initially posted)
And we've put up a hefty gallery of spreads from the book so you can get a sense of what's going on, HERE.
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The Red Monkey Double Happiness Books by Joe Daley
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