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Pitch Black
Pitch Black
Author:
"[Landowne and Horton] collaborate here to bring Horton's story of perseverance and hope to print, and the fluid black-and-white sequential panels tell it well. The horrors attendant on homelessness are not sugarcoated, and the language is as raw and gritty as one might expect. Powerful."?Kirkus Reviews On the s... more » That?s your guide Anthony speaking. He?ll show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system?that is, if you?ll let him. Which is exactly what Youme decided she would do one afternoon when she and Anthony began a conversation in the subway about art. It turns out that both Youme and Anthony Horton are artists. While part of Youme?s art is listening long and hard to the stories of the people she meets, part of Anthony?s is making art out of what most people won?t even look at. Thus began a unique collaboration and conversation between these two artists over the next year, which culminated in Anthony?s biography, the graphic novel Pitch Black. With art and words from both of them, they map out Anthony?s world?a tough one from many perspectives, startling and undoing from others, but from Anthony?s point of view, a life lived as art. Youme Landowne (known as Youme) is a painter and book artist who thrives in the context of public art. She studied cross-cultural communication through art at the New School for Social Research and Friends World College. She has interned in public schools and has been a student at the Friends World College at the Nairobi and Kyoto campuses. Youme has lived in and learned from the United States, Kenya, Japan, Haiti, Laos, and Cuba. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Anthony Horton is an artist. When he met Youme, he was living in the subway tunnels underneath New York City.
Author:
"[Landowne and Horton] collaborate here to bring Horton's story of perseverance and hope to print, and the fluid black-and-white sequential panels tell it well. The horrors attendant on homelessness are not sugarcoated, and the language is as raw and gritty as one might expect. Powerful."?Kirkus Reviews On the s... more » That?s your guide Anthony speaking. He?ll show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system?that is, if you?ll let him. Which is exactly what Youme decided she would do one afternoon when she and Anthony began a conversation in the subway about art. It turns out that both Youme and Anthony Horton are artists. While part of Youme?s art is listening long and hard to the stories of the people she meets, part of Anthony?s is making art out of what most people won?t even look at. Thus began a unique collaboration and conversation between these two artists over the next year, which culminated in Anthony?s biography, the graphic novel Pitch Black. With art and words from both of them, they map out Anthony?s world?a tough one from many perspectives, startling and undoing from others, but from Anthony?s point of view, a life lived as art. Youme Landowne (known as Youme) is a painter and book artist who thrives in the context of public art. She studied cross-cultural communication through art at the New School for Social Research and Friends World College. She has interned in public schools and has been a student at the Friends World College at the Nairobi and Kyoto campuses. Youme has lived in and learned from the United States, Kenya, Japan, Haiti, Laos, and Cuba. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Anthony Horton is an artist. When he met Youme, he was living in the subway tunnels underneath New York City.
ISBN-13: 9781933693064
ISBN-10: 1933693061
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Pages: 40
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating: 2
ISBN-10: 1933693061
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Pages: 40
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating: 2
4 stars, based on 2 ratings
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Arts & Literature >> Artists, Architects & Photographers
- Children's Books >> People & Places >> Social Issues >> Homelessness & Poverty
- Teen & Young Adult >> Social Issues >> General
- Comics & Graphic Novels >> Comic Strips >> General
- Comics & Graphic Novels >> General
- Comics & Graphic Novels >> Graphic Novels >> General
