Substance abuse and related cringeworthy behavior. Personal friendships strained to the point of breaking. Mocking evaluations of art and discussions of the value of art in general. Another satirical graphic novel about art school.Īngst and self-doubt about the artist's value as an artist. It’s good, it’s funny, but check out some of the others, too, especially if you have been or are in Art School getting your MFA and especially if you would rather just make cartoons. I rate Wendy: Master of Art as 3.5 stars, though maybe if I read more of it I will like it better. Thus, Wendy falls in love with a guy who is already in a relationship (oh! boy! polyamory!) she makes it through, graduates, makes her share of art, but all she really wants is love. Their students go to school to make art, get drunk and high and have sex if they possibly can. My view of this book is that it is good, funny, well-cartooned, has some heart, but as I see it it’s a part of a series of graphic novels by cartoonists who had terrible experiences in Art School that they want to now satirize, books such as Art School Confidential by Daniel Clowes, some of Jeffery Brown’s work, Cats of the Louvre, Catherine Ocelot’s Art Life, Karl Stevens’ The Winner, Joseph Remnant’s Cartoon Clouds, and on and on.Īnd all of these books are good and insightful and well-worth reading, but can be summed up by saying that Art School is too focused on High Art and the Pomposity of Postmodernism in this one as with others the professors are no-talent folks that force their students to adopt the latest theory to frame their work. Well, I just met her, so I’ll start reading from the beginning now, book one ordered, and see if we grow to love each other.
I see most of my Goodreads friends have been reading this for years and love Wendy.
I was not familiar with Walter Scott’s Wendy series of graphic novels, so I began here at what I take to be the end of it all, her graduation from the art school in Hell, Ontario.
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