Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter Paperback by Derek Van Gieson

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2016-11-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 265 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781606999042
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Part fine-art book, part travelogue documenting the author’s turbulent and fruitful period of time spent in New York City.

Derek Van Gieson’s Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is part fine-art book, part travelogue documenting the author’s turbulent and fruitful period of time spent in New York City. Through drawings, paintings, photography, and short fiction, Van Gieson delivers an intense experience wrought with heartbreak, joy, destruction, perseverance, and whimsy. Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter echoes influences of seminal artists like George Grosz and Richard Brautigan through its unique ability to entertain and engross. Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is sure to serve as an art object, conversation piece, and a well-worn carry-on for years to come.

About the Author

Derek Van Gieson is a writer, artist, and musician whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Fantagraphics anthology Mome, and Eel Mansions, his debut graphic novel, which was published by Uncivilized Press in 2015. He currently lives in Minneapolis.