Ephemerata Hc Shaping The Exquisite Nature Of Grief
Carol Tyler
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Uitgeverij Fantagraphics
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Fighting on after a dozen deaths and other losses, the
renowned cartoonist Carol Tyler returns from the
depths of grief with a masterpiece that combines
decades-spanning memoir with incredible allegorical
imagery, spinning a world of anguish and recovery in
fine-detailed brush lines.
In the wake of losing her husband of four decades, estrangement from her daughter, and a string of other deaths, Carol Tyler
descended into grief. Being an artist by vocation, she transformed
her grief in the only way she could — through artistic expression.
Exploring realms metaphorical, half-imagined, and all-too real, she
processes her loss and distress through dissociations and hard work
alike and combines the two into a magnum opus of aching art. Tyler
explores not just her grief, but our grief, and the idea of grieving in a
work that is both painfully intimate and philosophically rich.
An artistic advancement nearly forty years into Tyler’s comics-making career, The Ephemerata features Tyler’s most breathtaking picture
making ever — fine, dense brush lines complemented with occasional
color washes or highlights — and formally stunning cartooning. Combining art and text in multiple ways — in the traditional comics panel grid,
as words-and-illustration, as organically flowing images surrounded by
floating text — she depicts the inner monologue of a fallible human being
grappling with questions of profound relevance. Tyler’s memoirist skills
also rise to the fore, excavating and colliding scenes from her history,
delineating with sensitive intuition ways in which the inevitability of
grief is built into our lives and our loves. To struggle in the face of loss
is a universal experience. To turn it into this compassionate, deep and
beautiful book takes a true artist.
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