HOT POTATOE the "season's treat" says The Calgary Herald
Updated February 10, 2010
Art Books
by Nancy Tousley
MARC BELL'S HOT POTATOE
Consider Hot Potatoe the season's treat. Marc Bell (Shrimpy and Paul, Illusztraijuns for Brain Police) is a Montrealbased comics artist whose work crossed over into art galleries ages ago. Hot Potatoe is his first artist's book, a big beautiful tome whose pages are covered with Bell's horror vacui, fine line watercolour drawings, mixed-media collages and constructions, and absurdist writings. His fantastical takeoff on the artist monograph, which this book resembles, begins with a piece called See You in The Funny Pages, Marc Bell: A Highly Organized Guy, by Don Van Vliet, the musician formerly known as Captain Beefheart, now a painter, and romps on from there. For those in the right frame of mind, this is a must-have.
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