
"Sequential Drawings gathers together more than a decade of McGuire's witty and endlessly inventive spots--a veritable short story collection--each drawing given its own spread, which, in turn, assures for the reader the experience of surprise and delight that the drawings unfailingly deliver. Richard McGuire's first series of "spot" drawings debuted in the New Yorker in February 2005 for the magazine's 80th anniversary issue. Spot drawings, scattered among the magazine's text, had been a long-running feature of The New Yorker, and over the years, many artists had contributed them. But McGuire was the first to conceive them as a sequence, and his drawings were something altogether new: deceptively simple images that imbued the series with movement and narrative, telling their own unexpected stories"--
Publisher:
New York :, Pantheon Books,, [2016]
ISBN:
9781101871591
1101871598
1101871598
Branch Call Number:
741 MC
Characteristics:
586 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Alternative Title:
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)


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Add a CommentCute, powerful, easy to appreciate.
A soothing, charming and sweet book of stories told in simple illustrations.