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About The Incantations Of Daniel Johnston
Product Description "Artistic and hallucinatory." ―John Williams, New York Times Book ReviewThe Incantations of Daniel Johnston is a spirited, eye-popping collaborationg between New York Times-bestselling Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo and award-winning author Scott McClanahan. Long a fan of Daniel Johnston, the man and his music, Cavolo illustrates Johnston's colorful life, from his humble beginnings as a carnival employee to folk musician in Austin, to his rise to MTV popularity and persistent struggle with personal demons. In addition to being visually very striking, with astoundingly economical prose McClanahan manages to deal with powerful and complex issues, such as how we as a society mythologize troubled artists, while continuing his ongoing exploration of human relationships, and the pliable interaction between reader and writer. "The comic book is the perfect medium ― collaborative, visual, and verbal ― to explore the power of art to connect people in spite / because of extenuating circumstances like mental illness. It’s magical to see Johnston’s art reverberate between Cavolo and McClanahan as they wrestle with these questions like (to choose a metaphor Johnston might appreciate) Jacob wrestling with God." ―Lauren O’Neal, Los Angeles Review of Books Review "The comic book is the perfect medium ― collaborative, visual, and verbal ― to explore the power of art to connect people in spite / because of extenuating circumstances like mental illness. It’s magical to see Johnston’s art reverberate between Cavolo and McClanahan as they wrestle with these questions like (to choose a metaphor Johnston might appreciate) Jacob wrestling with God."―Lauren O’Neal, Los Angeles Review of Books "[The Incantations of Daniel Johnston] captures Johnston's visions―both artistic and hallucinatory―in an intensely colorful cartoonish style and vivid recurring images: frogs, cascades of pills, volcanoes, eyeballs of many varieties."―John Williams, New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and tragic."―Nathan Scott McNamara, Electric Literature "Fans of Daniel Johnston and his lo-fi, enigmatic music will devour this retelling of Johnston’s humble beginnings, his rise to fame, and his personal demons. While the prose appears sparse it delves into the problematic mythologizing of troubled artists and how we are guilty of turning mental health conditions into clichés."―Maggy van Eijk, BuzzFeed News "A self-referential story that acknowledges the odd ways that society constructs culture and celebrity and how hard it can be to fully capture a life, especially when that person is famous, or “cult famous,” as the case may be. But as McClanahan and Cavolo struggle to show the heart of a man who himself struggles to make art and live his life, they show their hearts as well―big, red, and beating.―Laura Adamczyk, The A.V. Club "This blend of music, biography, art, and mental illness belongs in collections with similar works such as Ellen Forney’s Marbles and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home."―Library Journal "Amazing... a perfect, intuitive blend of fellow fanatics with perspective. Both the writing and the artwork shine."―Simon Sweetman, STUFF "The Incantations of Daniel Johnston bears some similarities to the work of French artist David B. as well as R. Crumb’s shorter work about the religious visions of Philip K. Dick."―Martin Schneider, Dangerous Minds "Something wholly unexpected, grotesque, and poignant―a deeply idiosyncratic biographical project that is less interested in chronology and reported details than in the attendant horrors and anxieties of childhood, mental health, and creativity."―Will Stephenson, The Fader "You’ve never read anything like The Incantations of Daniel Johnston, a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the singer/songwriter, using it as a filter through which the larger strokes of his life are presented. What results is unstable, sympathetic, confused, and damned. As graphic novel biographies go, this one excels, using all
