WHATSA PAINTOONIST HC JERRY MORIARTY
(W) JERRY MORIARTY (A) JERRY MORIARTY (CA) JERRY MORIARTY
At the age of 76, the painter/cartoonist JERRY MORIARTY returned to his childhood home in Binghamton, New York. Moriarty then interrogated his past via the act of painting, alternating between unconventional pen-andink panels that take place in the present and full-color paintings recreating his past. Whatsa Paintoonist? is a masterpiece of concision, remembrance, imagination, and artistry, imbued with the love of life and family.
VISUAL CRIME HC MORIARTY
(W) JERRY MORIARTY (A) JERRY MORIARTY
In both of the stories that comprise Visual Crime, painter Rotart Sulli is given assignments for Visual Crime Magazine, each with a peculiar requirement: to stay in a hotel basement until his assignment is finished, and in the second story, he's told to place the finished work "in your back window- it will be seen." JERRY MORIARTY's rough-hewn panels alternate with the Hopperesque paintings by Rotart Sulli, creating a portrait of the artist working alone in an uncertain world, creating stunning images that transcend the melodramatic stories they illustrate.