The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow

(Paperback, New edition)

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The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow is the highly anticipated second graphic novel from Keren Katz. Her debut, the Academic Hour (Secret Acres), was nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist and received the 2018 Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic. Katz is a Center for Cartoon Studies fellow, and recipient of the Sequential Artists Workshop's Micro-Grant, the Society of Illustrators' Silver Medal and the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art's Award of Excellence. Her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Ink Brick and Time Out and her short stories have been published by NOW, Locust Moon Comics and the Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press). Keren Katz lectures regularly in Israel and in Europe. In the US, she has presented at the Parsons School of Design, the New School, the School of Visual Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania. Katz will tour North America, Israel and Europe in support of the Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow, with a planned preview excerpt to appear in the New Yorker.

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"Keren Katzs comics transcend the medium, the text is poetry, the drawings are dance, the stories are not like anyone else, she is a true original." Richard McGuire, author of Here

"Katzs figures sometimes show Modigliani-esque exaggerations of standard body proportions, and she makes exceptional use of patterns and color to create two-dimensional textures. People, animals, and buildings are warped, twisted, or transmuted in order to strike at deeper emotional truths, and theyre always fascinating to just gaze at. The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow may require multiple readings if one is to fully grasp the the beauty and mysterious power of Katzs work, but its time well invested." Foreword

"The dreamlike narrative is illustrated with colorful, flowing full-page drawings of elegant and elongated human figures in ballooning clothes, always in motion and mixed with birds, architecture, and abstract shapes and patterns, all creating the sense of an unstable, crazy quiltlike reality. With minimal text, Katzs art loosely recalls highly stylized Art Noveau illustrators like Aubrey Beardsley or Harry Clarke crossed with a jumbled surrealist sensibility." Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Keren Katzis an Israeli-born cartoonist, writer, and the non-fictitious half of The Katz Sisters Duo. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Artss MFA Illustration Program. She is the author of theAcademic Hour(Secret Acres), nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Her illustrations have appeared in theNew York Times, theBrooklyn Rail,Ink BrickandTime Outand her short stories have been published byNOW, Locust Moon Comics and theGraphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals(Seven Stories Press). Keren Katz lectures regularly in Israel and in Europe. In the US, she has presented at the Parsons School of Design, the New School, the School of Visual Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania.Katz is a Center for Cartoon Studies fellow, and recipient of the SVA Alumni Society 2013 Micro-Grant, the Sequential Artists Workshops 2014 Micro Grant, the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts 2015 Silver Medal and Award of Excellence, the 2018 Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic (The Academic Hour) and the Cartoon Crossroad Columbus Emerging Talent Prize.