The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard, $39.50, 144 pages, color and black and white. Published by Siglio
Joe Brainard is an artist that most of the world has encountered without always knowing it. His 'I Remember' poetry book might be the last avant garde poetry collection that actually enters everyday peoples lives. Brainard works across mediums, and made some of the earliest 'poetry' comics, in the mid 60s. From 1968 to '73, Brainard made hundreds of visual/text appropriations of Nancy. This flawless book collects them, alongside Nancy related drawings/notes. Brainard is an artist who works with cartoon imagery very thoughtfully, the work collected here is cartooning through and through.