# W the Whore - Hardcover

by **Anke Feuchtenberger** (Author), **Katrin de Vries** (Author), **Mark David Nevins** (Translator)

**The experiences of womanhood are heightened and transformed in these eerie, fairy tale-like comics by a gifted artist-writer duo.  
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Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West German-born Katrin de Vries read a magazine featuring the drawings of the East German-born Anke Feuchtenberger. De Vries wrote to ask Feuchtenberger if she might want to collaborate, and together they've produced some of the most striking German comics of the last thirty years, most notably _W the Whore_.

Collected here in English for the first time, _W the Whore_, _W the Whore Makes Her Tracks_, and _W the Whore Throws the Glove_ present the shared vision of de Vries and Feuchtenberger at its most ambitious. The titular heroine, W the Whore, drawn in a shifting guise by Feuchtenberger, navigates the tedious rituals of womanhood, the unsettling mysteries of male desire, and the strangeness of motherhood, all while moving through a familiar but hostile everyday landscape of houses, factories, rail yards, and other ominous structures. An intimate and captivating work of comics, _W the Whore_ is a testament to the challenges of existing in the bodies that we have been fated to inhabit, and what we do to persevere.

### Author Biography

**Anke Feuchtenberge**r is a German artist. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 1997 she has held a professorship in drawing and graphic narration at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg. Feuchtenberger emerged as a comic artist and started exhibiting and publishing internationally in the 1990s. She lives in Hamburg and Vorpommern, Germany.

**Katrin de Vries** is a German writer. She lives with her family in Bunde, Germany.

**Mark David Nevins** is an occasional writer on and translator of comics. For more than two decades he has been the American Correspondent for the Swiss comics journal _STRAPAZIN_. His comics translations include _Lone Racer,_ _The Exlibris_, _Tango with Death_, and _The Man Who Didn't Sweat_. Professionally he advises CEOs and boards on leadership, strategy, and governance.

**Madeleine Schwartz** is a journalist and editor based in Paris whose work has appeared in _The New Yorker_, _The London Review of Books_, and _The New York Review of Books_.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.7 IN

**Publication Date:** January 10, 2023

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