On to the Next Dream (eBook)
96 Seiten
City Lights Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-87286-743-7 (ISBN)
Paul Madonna's popular comic, "e;All Over Coffee"e; had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the ';tech wars' transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco's overheated boomtown housing market, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience, and to capture the complex, highly charged atmosphere of a cityand a lifebeing forced through a painful transition.In a series of drawings and stories, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city's brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately, in real life and in his comic. Absurd, maddening, and all-too-poignant, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world."e;For years I've been intrigued and charmed by Paul Madonna's careful and thoughtful drawings of overlooked nooks and by-ways of San Francisco. In his new book he now combines them with manic, delirious, and increasingly paranoid writings as he struggles with the all-consuming City dilemma of gentrification; of who came first, who gets to stay, which wave of usurpers is more 'real' and deserving than the next, and finally, what happens when someone decides it's your turn to go. Beautiful and engaging."e; Sandow Birk, visual artist"e;Madonna has created a kind of San Francisco Realism, details so absurd, cruel, and beautiful that they can only come from our infuriating home. If Charlie Kaufman squatted in an illegal sublet in Armistead Maupin's mind, this would be the lovely tenant."e;Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life"e;Paul Madonna's On to the Next Dream is bleak, terrifying, hilarious and lovely."e;MariNaomi, author and illustrator of Turning Japanese"e;Simply delightful. I really don't like much out there, I really don't, but On to the Next Dream I couldn't put down. It was sharp, clever, honest, and maybe the funniest book on eviction ever written."e;New Yorker cartoonist and New York Times bestselling author, Bob Eckstein, Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.3.2017 |
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Illustrationen | Paul Madonna |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga |
Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
Schlagworte | art as catharsis • Gentrification • San Francisco eviction • surrealist comic art • tech culture San Francisco |
ISBN-10 | 0-87286-743-9 / 0872867439 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-87286-743-7 / 9780872867437 |
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