Projector And Elephant

(W) Martin Vaughn-James (A) Martin Vaughn-James, Seth. Two surreal graphic novels about technology* corporatization* and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator. In 1968* the British artist and writer Martin Vaughn-James emigrated to Canada. Over the next eight years* he proceeded to produce some of the most mesmerizing and inventive works in comics* light-years ahead of his contemporaries. Among them were Elephant and The Projector* linked graphic novels that guide the reader (and a bespectacled Everyman) through landscapes built out of both the everyday and the nightmarish. Jam-packed superhighways* plummeting horses* vast urban wastelands* colossal businessmen* demented cartoon animals* and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James's prophetic vision of society's turn away from the natural world to the artificial. Together for the first time in a single volume* designed and edited by Seth and with an introduction by Jeet Heer* Elephant and The Projector stand as a reminder that we have yet to catch up to Vaughn-James.