{"product_id":"9781681378350","title":"Spiral and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA delicate, dreamlike, and lushly detailed comics collection by a contemporary artist whose work explores the enmeshment of the human and non-human worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, Aidan Koch’s comics have been pushing the boundaries of the medium, helping reimagine what a comic can look like, and the kinds of stories it can tell. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKoch has been living and working in the desert of California, turning her focus toward the ways humans and the natural world converge. \u003ci\u003eSpiral and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph of that continuing process. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing watercolors, pencils, crayons, charcoals, and collage, Koch builds worlds of dense detail and vast open spaces, urgent scrawled text and long silences, telling a series of stories about people and the places they inhabit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacters yearn for each other, even as they’re pulled toward different lives. Rivers dance together and then diverge as they make their way to see the sea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an accompanying essay by the author and critic Nicole Rudick, who explores Koch’s craft and her move into environmentally focused comics,\u003ci\u003e Spiral and Other \u003c\/i\u003eStories is a showcase of Koch’s mastery of the form of comics, as a medium that can contain astonishing forms and tell new stories for our uncertain times.","brand":"Aidan Koch","offers":[{"title":"New York Review Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-30","offer_id":44663222010111,"sku":"9781681378350","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_252cbf72-1dcc-439f-a011-c7fb6ce45086.jpg?v=1704534416","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781681378350","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}