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Carol Swain




Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Crossing the Empty Quarter Carol Swain Dark Horse $22.22
($24.95 list)
Crossingswain
Read more and comment... 		Carol Swain has quietly been amassing a substantial and significant body of work in her native England for approximately a quarter century, building a small but significant following among the comics cognoscenti here in the States, who have been admiring and enjoying her work in dribs and drabs as it has made its way over here in numerous anthologies, one previous collection – Way Out Strips – and two graphic novels – the just released Giraffes in My Hair, done in collaboration with Bruce Paley, and Foodboy – most published by Fantagraphics Books.  Now Dark Horse Books has stepped up to publish a quite substantial collection of her short stories, 38 in all – 29 in black & white and 9 in colour – most of which are executed in her texture-accenting colored pencil technique which has won her many a convert, and many of which have not been previously available in the USA.  This 200 page hardcover is a rare treat that is filled with unique, heartfelt work that hits home.  Get a feel for it with this 20-page online "flip-book."  You'll be glad you did.
Giraffes In My Hair Bruce Paley, Carol Swain Fantagraphics $17.77
($19.99 list)
Giraffeshair
Read more and comment... 		Carol Swain is one of Britain's finest artists, and with Giraffes In My Hair, written by her current companion, Bruce Paley, we have her most substantial work to date.  It is a memoir of Paley's "life in the tumultuous '60s and '70s."  Starting out in 1967 with hitchhiking and moving on through dropping acid, Disneyland, Chicago '68, Black Panthers and then into the '70s, and Max's Kansas City, doing drugs with Johnny Thunders and punk rock "nihilism."  All told in Carol Swain's exquisite, understated and finely tuned pencil rendering that are a pleasure to behold.  But you don't have to take our word for it; just check out this 9-page PDF preview and decide for yourself.