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Breakdown Press is pleased to bring the work of Anna Haifisch the artist is back in print in a new omnibus edition, collecting both the original 2016 graphic novel and its 2019 sequel. The circle of lifealong with additional strips including the new bird opera. Now readers can experience the entire story in one hilarious and heartbreaking volume, exposing the absurdity of the world of fine art as experienced by one young artist.
Anna Haifisch’s episodic, idiosyncratic comic chronicles the formative years of a young artist, satirizing the exclusive, ephemeral, and absurd world of fine art with all its arcane protocols and quirks. Plagued by doubt and anxiety, the artist faces constant setbacks and occasional tantalizing glimpses of success.
Based on Haifisch’s own experiences as an illustrator in both Germany and the United States, the artist is a sharp, self-deprecating comedy that will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to make art. In the artistHaifisch has exposed the nerves of what it means to be an artist in a world of ever-changing rules and complications, to hilarious and revealing ends.
