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On to the Next Dream

Paul Madonna

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Description for On to the Next Dream Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Madonna, Paul. Num Pages: 96 pages, Color illustrations, B&W illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; ACXJ; AGB; AKLC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152. Weight in Grams: 257.
Paul Madonna's popular comic, All Over Coffee had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the tech wars transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco's overheated boomtown housing market, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience, and to capture the complex, highly charged atmosphere of a city--and a life--being forced through a painful transition. In a ... Read moreseries of drawings and stories, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city's brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately, in real life and in his comic. Absurd, maddening, and all-too-poignant, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world. For years I've been intrigued and charmed by Paul Madonna's careful and thoughtful drawings of overlooked nooks and by-ways of San Francisco. In his new book he now combines them with manic, delirious, and increasingly paranoid writings as he struggles with the all-consuming City dilemma of gentrification; of who came first, who gets to stay, which wave of usurpers is more 'real' and deserving than the next, and finally, what happens when someone decides it's your turn to go. Beautiful and engaging. --Sandow Birk, visual artist Madonna has created a kind of San Francisco Realism, details so absurd, cruel, and beautiful that they can only come from our infuriating home. If Charlie Kaufman squatted in an illegal sublet in Armistead Maupin's mind, this would be the lovely tenant. --Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life Paul Madonna's On to the Next Dream is bleak, terrifying, hilarious and lovely. --MariNaomi, author and illustrator of Turning Japanese Simply delightful. I really don't like much out there, I really don't, but On to the Next Dream I couldn't put down. It was sharp, clever, honest, and maybe the funniest book on eviction ever written. --New Yorker cartoonist and New York Times bestselling author, Bob Eckstein, Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores Praise for Everything is its own reward by Paul Madonna: The book is fantastic. Of time and tenderness. Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text. Ethereal and serious at once. The book is its own reward. --Maira Kalman, illustrator Mesmerizing ...When his international images are paired with his sparse, poetic words--sometimes thought-provoking one-liners such as 'You don't get anywhere without searching' and sometimes long, meandering sections of dialogue and story--the effect is haunting. --Oprah.com Paul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series All Over Coffee and the author of two books, All Over Coffee and Everything is its own reward. His drawings and stories have appeared in numerous books and journals as well as galleries and museums, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. Show Less

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Publisher

City Lights Publishers

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2017

Condition

New

Weight

257g

Number of Pages

Place of Publication

Monroe, OR, United States

ISBN

9780872867420

SKU

V9780872867420

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About Paul Madonna

Paul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2015), and the author of two books, All Over Coffee (City Lights 2007), and Everything is its own reward (City Lights 2011), which won the 2011 NCBR Recognition Award for Best Book. Paul s work is about pairing ... Read more

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It's a tender bruise of a book that finds the universal in the local. Along with offering a bittersweet farewell to the idealized city of his memory, Madonna crystallizes the universal ache of aging and the wisdom that accompanies it: 'Whether I liked it or not, ' he writes, 'this era of my life was now at an end . ... Read more

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