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      Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons

      by Flannery O'Connor
      Published
      Jul 2012
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      144
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      • This book reveals the last well-kept secret of much-beloved icon of American literature Flannery O'Connor's creative life: she did not set out to be a fiction writer, but a cartoonist. Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons is the first book devoted to the author's work in the visual arts. It emphasizes O'Connor's most prolific period as a cartoonist, drawing for her high school and college publications in the early 1940s. While many of these images lampoon student life and the impact of World War II on the home front, something much more is happening. O'Connor learns how to set up and carry a joke visually, how to write a good one-liner and set it off against a background of complex visual narration. She develops and asserts her taste for a stock set of character types, attitudes, situations, exaggerations, and grotesques, and she learns how to present them not to distort the truth, but to expose her vision of it. She worked in both pen-and-ink and linoleum cuts, and her rough-hewn technique combined with her acidic observations form a visual precursor to her prose.

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      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Graphic Novel Literary

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      First Edition Jul 2012 Fantagraphics Books ISBN 1606994794
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      Jan 2012 Fantagraphics ISBN B0191ZK3R4
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