His works were the subject of several personal exhibitions in Brussels and Paris. Later in life, Vaughn-James moved to Belgium, where he focused on painting. Vaughn-James is widely recognized as a pioneer in the development of the graphic novel. He was born in England and spent much of his youth in Australia, before moving to Canada to do his groundbreaking comics work in the 1970s. Martin Vaughn-James (1943-2009) was a painter and groundbreaking comics artist who published three of his early works with Coach House Press: The Projector (1971), The Park (1972) and The Cage (1975). It's not about where we're going but how if we get there. The new edition includes an introduction by Canadian comics master and Lemony Snicket collaborator Seth (Palookaville It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken).Cryptic and disturbing, like Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) illustrating a film by Ozu, The Cage spurns narrative for atmosphere, guiding us through a series of disarrayed rooms and desolate landscapes, tracking a stuttering and circling time and a sequence of objects: headphones, inky stains, bedsheets. Considered an early masterpiece of the genre, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. Sinopsis First published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre.
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