![]() ![]() Scott makes you laugh and then rips your heart out." - Lit Hub "The funniest graphic novel of the year." - The Guardian, Best of 2020 Wendyskewers art school and young adulthood alike via the lens of titular protagonist." "I thought I regretted not going to art school until a friend introduced me to Walter Scott’s Wendy comic book series. His mastery of his characters’ faces and gestures is also wonderful, his line quick and sure and expressive." " Scott manages a rare thing: the sharpness of his satire doesn’t preclude a realistic rendering of personhood, and the seeming flatness opens up, at every turn, to a depth of feeling…. For all her faults, heroine is intensely likable." -Rachel Cooke, The Guardian "As well as being very funny and acute, Wendy, Master of Art is also weirdly touching. ![]() "I am blown away by Walter Scott’s Wendy." -Zadie Smith It is deeply funny and endlessly relatable as it shows Wendy growing from millennial art party girl to successful artist, friend, teacher-and Master of Art. At its heart, this is a book about the give and take of community-about learning to navigate empathy and boundaries, and to respect herself. Wendy, Master of Art explores the politics of open relationships and polyamory, performative activism, the precariousness of a life in the arts, as well as the complexities of gender identity, sex work, drug use, and more. Scott’s incisively funny take on art school pretensions isn’t the only focus. What is the post-Jungian object as symbol? Will she ever understand her course reading-or herself? What if she’s just not smart enough? As she develops as an artist and a person, Wendy also finds herself in a teaching position, mentoring a perpetually sobbing grade-grubbing undergrad. In Wendy, Master of Art, Walter Scott’s sly wit and social commentary zero in on MFA culture as our hero hunkers down to complete a master of fine arts at the University of Hell in small-town Ontario.įinally Wendy has space to refine her artistic practice, but in this calm, all of her unresolved insecurities and fears explode at full volume-usually while hungover. Wendy is an aspiring contemporary artist whose adventures have taken her to galleries, art openings, and parties in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Toronto. ![]() The existential dread of making (or not making) art takes center stage in this trenchant satire of MFA culture His mastery of his characters’ faces and gestures is also wonderful, his line quick and sure and expressive." - The New Yorker ![]()
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