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Comics & Graphic Novels Literary

The Wayside

by (author) Julie Morstad

Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Initial publish date
Oct 2012
Category
Literary
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781770460898
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $19.95

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ALL NEW DRAWINGS FROM A NOTED ILLUSTRATOR
Julie Morstad has long excelled at illustration, often working in tandem with children's writers, but in The Wayside, the storytelling potential of her fantastical pictures is fully realized. Within these pages Morstad's worlds unite, maintaining their ethereal, almost fairy-tale beauty and yet also offering a loose overarching synthesis through thematic and visual commonalities.
The work found herein combines the delicate line of Edward Gorey with the color palette of Marcel Dzama, and emerges as something utterly unique, a combination of the two with the spirit of Virginia Woolf. Dramatic, poetic, heavy with symbolism, Morstad's drawings speak for themselves, exploring femininity, identity, and personal mythologies that interested her in her first Drawn & Quarterly book, Milk Teeth.

About the author

 span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Julie Morstadspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> is an author, illustrator and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Her most recent book for children, How To, marks her authorial debut, and has received starred reviews in Kirkus, School Library Journal and Quill & Quire, as well as a Governor General's award nomination. Books she has illustrated for children include When You Were Small, recipient of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award; When I Was Small, winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize; and Singing Away the Dark, which was shortlisted for a number of children's literature prizes.

 

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Editorial Reviews

This new book of her work is perfect. It's . . . a good match for her delicate fine line drawings and etchings." - Book By Its Cover on Milk Teeth

"Delicate, imaginative, whimsical and haunting." - The Vancouver Sun on Milk Teeth

"The sophistication and refinement of her style are undoubtedly what have made her a popular commercial illustrator." - The Hour on Milk Teeth
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