Hamilton Sketchbooks

By David Collier

David Collier begins his journal when he trades in the isolated and wind-swept prairie city of Saskatoon for Hamilton. For an artist it's a land of opportunity. And the ink in his pen doesn't freeze... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896597483
• ISBN13: 9781896597485
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating letdown

I had read Collier's earlier narrative works, JUST THE FACTS and PORTRAITS FROM LIFE. They are wonderful collections of visual essays. I was looking forward to reading THE HAMILTON SKETCHBOOKS as well. I was surprised. This was exactly what it said it was. A sketchbook. And, although the art is endearlingly clumsy and I laughed for days over one of the pictures, I was a little disappointed that he did not return to the essay form. It seems, with the publishing of the follow up to this book, THE FRANK RITZA PAPERS, a combination of one essay and another series of sketches, that Collier is at a crossroads. He seems to have become more fascinated with the anecdotal story and less with the narrative. Which is a nice thing, both books still have his reserved self-effacing Canadian sensibility, but all the same, he is so good at the narrative that I hope he returns to it. Regardless, I am looking forward to his next Drawn & Quarterly publication, whatever it might be.