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Gilded Lilies: Comics and Drawings Gilded Lilies is artist Jillian Tamaki's first book and collects many of the incredible illustrations she has done for high profile magazines (New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, CBC, The New Yorker) as well as new drawings and comics. It reprints her mini comic City of Champions, a stream-of-consciousness ode to the city of post-Gretzky Edmonton. Tamaki paints a portrait of a city populated by "cautious optimists" and "resigned cynics" and filled with accidental street theatre. The feature comic is The Tapemines, an 80 page wordless scroll about feral children in forests of cassette tape. Other comics celebrate her Brooklyn neighborhood. Her inspirations include German expressionists Georg Grosz and Otto Dix, as well as Japanese and Inuit printmaking. Although gifted with the brush Tamaki's comics and drawings are character driven and focus heavily on observational narrative. Her unique style often celebrates the inherent beauty in the grotesque. Gilded Lilies is a break out book from a huge talent. Jillian Tamaki's work has appeared in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bitch, Bust, Ascent, and CBC Arts Online. With her cousin, Mariko Tamaki, she's currently expanding the comic Skim into a graphic novel for Groundwood Press (an imprint of Anansi). Raised in Calgary, she graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003. Her work has been exhibited at the Giant Robot store and gallery. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Visit her online at www.jilliantamaki.com. Now Available in Diamond's September Previews Catalogue.
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