Friday, September 15, 2017

Art Spiegelman's Wild Party Brew

Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party dates from 1928 and an illustrated version by Art Spiegelman was published in 1999. A personalized copy of the book bears a pencil drawing of what may well be a toxic brew, but on the other hand it could be just sweet wine. I suppose we'll have to drink it to find out.

Inscribed "A WILD PARTY, FOR STEPHEN...
WINE WIMMEN AND SUGAR.
with hypoglyecmic wishes—
Art Spiegelman

                                                       11/97"
The Wild Party
The lost classic by Joseph Moncure March (1928)
Drawings by 
Art Spiegelman (1999)


Note:  Once again, kudos to Stephen Kroninger for providing a unique scan or two for the old blog. Cheers!

As it happens, I'm always looking for scans or photographs of uniquely-personalized books by Art Spiegelman and other New Yorker artists. Down the hatch!

By the way, the new American Bystander #5 will carry the very first classified ad for this blog. I estimate between zero and five new visitors in the first year alone!

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