Whatsa Paintoonist? Hardcover by Jerry Moriarty

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2017-09-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 88 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683960331
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

In this book, a fine artist creates a dialogue with his past and present selves through pen-and-ink and painted art.

At the age of 76, the painter/cartoonist Jerry Moriarty moved from his studio loft in Manhattan, where he lived and worked for 49 years, to his childhood home in Binghamton, New York, where he lived from the age of six until he went to Pratt Institute at 18. The artist uses this as an opportunity to interrogate his past via the act of painting as a mnemonic. He invents teenager Sally, based on his sister Pat, with whom he talks and shares his paintings: “The painting becomes a time machine..."

About the Author

Jerry Moriarty is a painter and cartoonist (self-described as a "paintoonist") from New York. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt institute, and his best known work in cartooning is the comic Jack Survives. He taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 50 years.