Project And Elephant, The, Vaughn-James, Martin

In 1968, the British artist and writer Martin Vaughn-James emigrated to Canada. Over the next eight years, he proceeded to produce some of the most mesmerizing and inventive works in comics, light years ahead of his contemporaries. Among them were 1970s Elephant and 1971s The Projector, linked graphic novels that guide the reader (and a bespectacled everyman) through landscapes built out of both the everyday and the nightmarish. Jampacked superhighways, plummeting horses, vast urban wastelands, colossal businessmen, demented cartoon animals, and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James prophetic vision of societys turn away from the natural world to the artificial.