![]() ![]() While promoted by insiders in the years that followed, it is not well-known. Here are some additional details from the publisher:īrief Description: First published in 1975, this work foreshadowed the rise of the graphic novel. To give you an idea of what's in store, we've posted a few spreads on the Copacetic Instagram, here. ![]() Aspects of his approach to comics making presages that of work being undertaken here in the 21st century by comics makers as diverse as John Hankiewicz, Anders Nilsen adn Hans Rickheit, as well as informing the work of many others. ![]() Among his peers working in the 1970s, only Moebius, along with, but to a lesser degree, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin are comparable and even then Vaughn-James is more or less in his own world. Vaughn-James had a unique approach to, as well as a clearly prescient vision of, long form visually-centered narrative. Originally published in 1975, as a hardcover edition of 1500 copies by Toronto's Coach House Press, The Cage was reissued in 2013, again by Coach House, in a softcover edition. When we learned that New York Review Comics was planning a new edition of two of Vaughn-James's other major works from the 1970s ( Elephant and The Projector), we felt it was high time to bring this work, which we've been selling the shop for quite awhile (whenever we can get our hands on some copies!), to the attention of our online customers. ![]()
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