Little Stranger

(Paperback)

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Edie Fakes Gaylord Phoenix broke comics conventions on its way to winning the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel, becoming a touchstone for a new and radical queer movement. Since Gaylord Phoenix, Edie Fake transcended the underground zine scene, with solo exhibitions at the Thomas Robertello Gallery, Western Exhibitions and New Yorks Marlborough Chelsea. His illustrations have appeared in the Chicago Reader, LARB and the New York Times. He has been the subject of PBS Art 21 series and features in Vice and ARTNews. Fake co-founded the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. He also gained notoriety as one of the USC7. Fake received the first Printed Matter Award for Artists, designing graphics for the New York and LA Art Book Fairs, and American Apparel. His presence is ever expanding. Even as Fake established himself as one Americas most vital fine artists, he continued making comics, which could only be found in underground zines and anthologies. Little Stranger brings them together. Edie will tour with Little Stranger, which launches alongside Gaylord Phoenix, in its return to print. Better still, Fake has returned to Gaylord Phoenix; the queer classics eighth installment also debuts alongside Little Stranger. Prepare for the year of Edie Fake.

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"Fake (Gaylord Phoenix) presents a striking, occasionally scatological collection of his short comics and drawings from recent years, culled from various zines and underground publications. Employing concise imagery and minimal text, and through symbology and analogy, Fake examines sex and gender with generous amounts of sly, irreverent humor... ...Fake deconstructs gender and human anatomy, sex and desire, then puts them back together again, on his own messy, artful terms. This provocative graphic collection pushes boundaries, and then breaks them open." - Publishers Weekly

"While Fake does not seem interested in conveying definite meanings in them, he does explore particular themes and motifs, as titles like Center Part or Neutralities might indicate... ...Even in the less direct works, however, Fake's overall intent seems clear: to conjure a vibrant space where freedom of gender expression can reign." - Art in America

"Fake is a trans artist, and his graphic novel seamlessly bends gender, melding male quest narrative with female romance to create shimmering fantasies; the visual analog of shoegaze if shoegaze were queerer and more disturbing." - The Atlantic

"...Perfect comics can give openly and sincerely to the reader a place to rest their soul. This is Fake's most powerful talent and his work's best quality." - LA Review of Books

"As far as I'm concerned, Edie Fake's crisp, ecstatic clip-art-style graphics are the most compelling reason not to give up on comics as an art form." - Chicago Reader

"He asks us not only to honor and remember our queer history, but to use it as inspiration for constructing queer spaces in the present." - Lambda Literary

Author Bio

Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980. He graduated from the RISD in 2002 and has since clocked time in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore. He was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter's Awards for Artists and his collection of comics, Gaylord Phoenix, won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. In 2011 he helped found the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE). Edie Fake is one of the USC7--the MFA class that collectively dropped out of USC's Roski School of Art and Design after the school went back on its financial offers and dismissed respected faculty. His illustrations have appeared in Lumpen Magazine, the New City and the New York Times. Fake's art has been given solo exhibitions at galleries around the world, including the Thomas Robertello Gallery, Western Exhibitions and New York's Marlborough Chelsea Gallery. He lives and works in the California High Desert.