Marlies Pekarek
Geraldine Searles
Niggli, Sulgen, Switzerland, 2012, English, German
Fiction, Comics and Graphic Novels
4 x 5.75 inches, paperback, 164 pages, 70 illustrations with waxpapers
ISBN: 9783721208580
Suggested Retail Price: $32.00

From the Publisher. From two of the strongest and most outspoken women artists working today comes a collaborative comic book loosely based on the history of sugar. This comic book is part of a larger, ongoing project started in 2006, titled Madonnas, Queens and Other Heroes, by Australian artist-political commentator Geraldine Searles and Swiss artist Marlies Pekarek. Searles took Pekarek’s 3-D sugar sculpture entitled Sugar Queen, scanned it into a digital file, then created a fantastic story and surrounding scenery to give the Sugar Queen a new context and a new journey. The cross-cultural friendship of the collaborators began when Pekarek was studying art in Australia more than two decades ago.

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