Leanne Shapton
Leanne Shapton | |
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Born | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | June 25, 1973
Area(s) | Cartoonist |
http://www.leanneshapton.com/ |
Leanne Shapton (born June 25, 1973) in
Shapton's first work, Was She Pretty?, was a nominee for the Doug Wright Award, a Canadian award for comics and graphic novels, in 2007. It explored, via a series of line-drawn illustrations, the issues of relationship jealousy and insecurity as told through the imagined superior traits of the subjects' exes.
Shapton is also an art director for newspapers and magazines.[3] Formerly associated with Saturday Night, Maclean's and the National Post in Canada, she has worked as art director for the op-ed page at The New York Times.[2] She has created hand lettering for a number of book covers, including Chuck Palahniuk's 2003 novel Diary. She is also a partner in J&L Books.[4]
Her autobiographical book Swimming Studies (2012) deals with her youth as a national competitive swimmer, who made it as far as the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic trials. It is a "meditation on the gruelling years of training, the ways swimming is refracted through her memory now".[5] It won the National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography).[6][7]
Shapton created the "armpit sex drawing" for Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her.
Guestbook, a collection of short writings and images, is slated for publication in 2019.[8]
References
- ^ Houpt, Simon (24 March 2009). "Canadian 'still reeling' about Brad Pitt deal". The Globe and Mail. Toronto ON. p. R1.
- ^ a b Houpt, Simon (March 24, 2009). "Canadian 'still reeling' about Brad Pitt deal". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
- ^ Akbar, Arifa (22 December 2009). "A first-timer's tale of unheralded literary success". The Independent. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "Profile Leanne Shapton". Macmillan. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- ^ Carolyn Kormann (August 16, 2012). "Notes from Underwater Review of Swimming Studies". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
- ^ John Williams (March 1, 2013). "Robert A. Caro, Ben Fountain Among National Book Critics Circle Winners". New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- CBC Books, January 25, 2019.
External links
- Leanne Shapton at IMDb