Brother Sebastian
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From the gentle cloisters of a mid-century monastery emerges one of American cartooning's most endearing creations — Brother Sebastian, a rotund and well-meaning friar whose pious intentions are perpetually at odds with the comic absurdities of daily religious life. Brother Sebastian is a collection of single-panel cartoons by celebrated illustrator and New Yorker contributor Chon Day, chronicling the gentle misadventures of a bumbling but lovable monk navigating a world of prayer, penances, and unexpected pratfalls. With a warm, deceptively simple line style, Day presents a world where sacred routine meets sly wit, producing laughs that are as innocent as they are irresistible. Chon Day was a master of the understated comic image, and this collection stands as one of his most beloved works, illustrating his rare gift for finding the human — and deeply funny — within the devout. The cartoons carry a genial, old-world charm that recalls the best of mid-twentieth-century American magazine illustration, with an economy of line that speaks volumes. Whether Brother Sebastian is wrestling with a stubborn confessional door or navigating the politics of the monastery garden, each panel leaves the reader wondering, with a smile, what holy mischief this hapless friar will stumble into next.
Author: Chon Day
Format: Hardback
Genre: Cartoons & comic strips
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From the gentle cloisters of a mid-century monastery emerges one of American cartooning's most endearing creations — Brother Sebastian, a rotund and well-meaning friar whose pious intentions are perpetually at odds with the comic absurdities of daily religious life. Brother Sebastian is a collection of single-panel cartoons by celebrated illustrator and New Yorker contributor Chon Day, chronicling the gentle misadventures of a bumbling but lovable monk navigating a world of prayer, penances, and unexpected pratfalls. With a warm, deceptively simple line style, Day presents a world where sacred routine meets sly wit, producing laughs that are as innocent as they are irresistible. Chon Day was a master of the understated comic image, and this collection stands as one of his most beloved works, illustrating his rare gift for finding the human — and deeply funny — within the devout. The cartoons carry a genial, old-world charm that recalls the best of mid-twentieth-century American magazine illustration, with an economy of line that speaks volumes. Whether Brother Sebastian is wrestling with a stubborn confessional door or navigating the politics of the monastery garden, each panel leaves the reader wondering, with a smile, what holy mischief this hapless friar will stumble into next.