Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey

2015

This was written for the Russian-American artist Sanya Kantarovsky’s book No Joke, predominantly a collection of his paintings plus some other texts, which I co-edited as well as designed. As far as I recall, the piece is based on an actual email I wrote to accompany some actual draft designs for the book that actually used the Stewart Lee excerpts as mentioned; but for sure it was heavily reworked and fleshed out once we decided to include the “letter” as a pseudo-preface to the book as a whole.

Lead image: From Scott McCloud’s seminal Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Northampton, MA: Tundra, 1993), which also appears in No Joke.

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