# The Projector and Elephant - Hardcover

by **Martin Vaughn-James** (Author), **Jeet Heer** (Introduction by), **Seth** (Designed by)

**Two surreal graphic novels about technology, corporatization, and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator.**

In 1968, the British artist and writer Martin Vaughn-James emigrated to Canada. Over the next eight years, he proceeded to produce some of the most mesmerizing and inventive works in comics, light-years ahead of his contemporaries. Among them were _Elephant_ and _The Projector_, linked graphic novels that guide the reader (and a bespectacled Everyman) through landscapes built out of both the everyday and the nightmarish. Jam-packed superhighways, plummeting horses, vast urban wastelands, colossal businessmen, demented cartoon animals, and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James's prophetic vision of society's turn away from the natural world to the artificial.

Together for the first time in a single volume, designed and edited by Seth and with an introduction by Jeet Heer, _Elephant_ and _The Projector_ stand as a reminder that we have yet to catch up to Vaughn-James.

### Author Biography

**Martin Vaughn-James** (1943-2009) was a British painter and cartoonist best known for his captivating, stylistically daring graphic novels--_Elephant_, _The Projector_, _The Park_, and _The Cage--_all published in the 1970s, when Vaughn-James lived in Canada. He contributed to numerous magazines during his lifetime and wrote two prose novels, _Night Train_ and _The Tomb of Zwaab_.

**Seth** is the cartoonist behind the comic book series _Palookaville_. His most recent graphic novel, _Clyde Fans_, was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by _The New York Times_, _The Washington Post,_ and _The Globe and Mail_. Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife, Tania, and their two cats in an old house he has named "Inkwell's End."

**Jeet Heer** is a comics critic and the national affairs correspondent for _The Nation_. He is the author of _In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman_ and _Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles_. He divides his time between Toronto and Regina, Canada.

**Number of Pages:** 212

**Dimensions:** 0.98 x 9.01 x 11.79 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 12, 2022

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