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Book Title: Hot Potatoe
Artist: Marc Bell
Writer: Marc Bell
Published: 2009
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Number of Pages: 272
Width: 11.7 inches
Height: 9.1 inches
Price: $44.05US  $44.95CAN
ADD TO CART Marc Bell’s Doug Wright Award-winning HOT POTATOE seamlessly combines decade-plus comics activities with a lifelong devotion to, as Bell calls it, "Fine Ahtwerks." Part art monograph, part comics collection, HOT POTATOE is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell’s most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies – Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld. Bell’s works have their roots in draftsmanship, typography and old-fashioned gags, but morph into assemblages that connect his images into real space. His comics are funny, seat-of-the pants narratives that give the characters an inner-life. Represented by the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan, Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray Johnson and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph.

Recommended for Mature Audiences

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