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The ephemerata : shaping the exquisite nature of grief / Carol Tyler.
Van Pelt Library BF575.G7 T955 2025
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyler, Carol, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tyler, Carol--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Tyler, Carol.
- Grief--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Grief.
- Loss (Psychology)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Death--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Death.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical comics.
- Nonfiction comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Shaping the exquisite nature of grief
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Drawing upon her own bereavement, renowned comics artist and writer Carol Tyler emerges from a decade long period of grief to create an allegorical masterpiece. During collisions between life and death, estrangement and loss, Carol Tyler turned to her pen to face facts and extract meaning from the oddly sacred experience. Exploring realms metaphorical, half-imagined, and all-too-real, she explored previously uncharted emotional territory for herself and others, in a work that is both painfully intimate and philosophically rich. An artistic advancement nearly forty years into Tyler's comics-making career, The Ephemerata features Tyler's most breathtaking picture making skills ever. It's nearly impossible to adequately describe the sheer visual abundance of Tyler's work, from her use of the traditional comics panel grid, to words-and-illustration, to organically flowing images surrounded by text. Carol skillfully cross-hatched together the inner monologue of a fallible human being, grappling with questions of profound relevance to us all. To struggle on in the face of loss is a universal experience. But it takes an artist with Carol Tyler's insight, empathy, and life-long dedication to the craft to shape it into a compassionate, deep, and essential book"--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- "Documenting the physical, biological, mental and psychological effects of loss."
- ISBN:
- 9798875001437
- OCLC:
- 1520505913
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