About the Author:
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.
From Booklist:
*Starred Review* Fenwick’s graphic-novel debut is a series of single-page images, each focused on a word or short phrase (e.g., “Wealth,” “Metaphor,” “Death,” “The Unique Gifts of Genius”) that is printed larger than the rest of the hand-lettered text accompanying it. Each text expatiates on the big word or words in a mini-essay embedded in a sea of hand-drawn decoration. The persona presenting the texts elaborately pretends to be a “genius” delivering daily lessons to the would-be-knowledgeable. Every so often, the writer-artist cancels class, as it were; “Cancelled” appears instead of a subject of instruction, and the instructor explains and assigns homework. This is all very droll, despite the fact that the teacher sometimes seems as awkward as a precocious but naive kid. Moreover, he mentions a brother with some envy, also a mother. In the end, all comes surprisingly clear. Fenwick carefully realizes a character with whom and a situation with which it is keenly gratifying and affirmative to empathize. This is a life-passage story that reveals itself as such so slyly that the joy and loving humility it evokes at the end are breathtaking. --Ray Olson
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