A surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidien frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world.
Chris Reynolds was born in Wales in 1960 and studied fine art at
the North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has worked as a filmmaker,
publicist, and art teacher but now devotes his time to drawing
comics. He lives in Poole in the United Kingdom.
Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville,
and his comics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best
American Comics, and McSweeney's. His illustrations have appeared
in numerous publications, including on the covers of The New
Yorker, The Walrus, and Canadian Notes & Queries. He is also Lemony
Snicket's partner for the new young-adult series All the Wrong
Questions. Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife, Tania, and
their two cats in an old house he has named Inkwell's End.
Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of
the Voice Literary Supplement and for the Poetry Foundation. His
debut novel, Personal Days, published in 2008, was a finalist for
the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction. His writing has appeared
in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, the Los Angeles
Times, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
“Luxuriously published by New York Review Books, [The New World ]
gathers together between hard covers a variety of work by Chris
Reynolds, the cult Welsh-born artist who remains both underrated
and too little known. The result is a collection that isn’t only
beautiful to look at and to hold; turning its pages, it strikes you
that though these ineffably strange strips were written in another
time, they work better in ours. Here, after all, is a world where
technology must be treated with suspicion, workers perform random
jobs whose nature is essentially pointless, and loneliness is the
presiding spirit of the age….As the writer Ed Park suggests in his
introduction, to call Reynolds’s comics black and white isn’t quite
to do them justice; they’re more like black and white and black –
and it’s in that extra layer of darkness that his genius may be
found.” — Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
"Since the mid-1980s, British cartoonist Reynolds has
self-published his tales of Mauretania, set some years after Earth
has been taken over by intergalactic invaders. . . . Over the
years, Reynolds’ stories have amassed an enthusiastic cult
(including the alt-cartoonist Seth, who designed this volume); this
handsome compilation is bound to expand his following immensely.”
—Booklist
"Reynolds’ stark black and white frames stop you in your
tracks...It’s also mesmerising and hypnotic. You want to read it
again once you’re done, and pore over its
strangeness...Periodically books find their way to Bookmunch’s maw
that we don’t expect and they blow our collective socks off. This
is very definitely of that variety.” —Bookmunch
“Spend some time with Chris Reynolds’s The New World: Comics From
Mauretania. . . Stark illustrations will envelop you in their
contrasts—the blanket blacks of the foreground, the impossible
star-bright skies—and you’ll find yourself thumbing anxiously for
the uncertain medium of shadows. The characters will elude
you—transient, distant, largely muted in their emotions—and their
struggles will become your own as you search for meaning in an
increasingly mysterious world.” —Christopher Notarnicola, The
Paris Review Daily
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