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The Big Frack
Kay Wood's second graphic novel
Go to Kay Wood's Graphic Novels
for more about all Kay Wood graphic novels and more.
Kay Wood's second graphic novel
Go to Kay Wood's Graphic Novels
for more about all Kay Wood graphic novels and more.
“Very creative the way you weave information into a fun plot. The characters make [the] book... I love your drawings and the humanity of the characters...Well done!!!” — Sandra Folzer
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The Big Frack, is the second hilarious graphic novel by artist, writer, and radio show host, Kay Wood, about our fossil fuel mania. It's a fun tale of relationships, romance, and colliding missteps, 190 pages full of colorful drawings for all ages from teens to grandparents. Once again baby boomer couple, Monty Cane and Maureen Able, along with their super-intelligent parrot Fletcher, and amorous French bulldog, François, are in the middle of trying events. They and a mix of quirky lovable characters work together to try to stop assorted villains from endangering people’s health and lives. Will the great state of Pencilvania be saved from a government/corporate plan to open state parks to drilling and thereby poisoning the drinking water for millions? Read The Big Frack to find out.
https://kaywoodart.wixsite.com/graphicnovels/the-big-frack |
Kay Wood and Planet Philadelphia
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Doing a radio show is a completely new and different endeavor for me. Most of my life has been lived as an artist doing different kinds of 2d media. But I was inspired – one could even say driven – to do Planet Philadelphia radio show to give voice to our community about our environment – which is after all simply where we all live, work and play – because of my concerns about climate change – but also because I keep on meeting amazing people doing amazing things to make our world a better place.
I’d been addressing environmental issues in my paintings and other works for years, but after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and horrendous disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, I decided I somehow had to reach a wider audience about climate change. The Big Belch, my first ever graphic novel, uses humor to express just how ridiculously insane our behavior is toward the natural environment, oil, and future generations. I hope you enjoy it. "Kay Wood's graphic novella pits a gang of haplessly humorous activists against an environmental Armageddon in the making. In the "Big Belch", the stakes are high but so are the spirits of characters bumbling their way to a better world." — Singe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist My work on, The Big Belch, has gotten some good things going. Here are links to some: 2014 Art and Change Grant Successful Kickstarter project Fun article about The Big Belch, Fletcher's famous! For more about her graphic novels contact Kay Wood: thebigfrack (at) gmail.com |
Before I became a graphic novelist, I had a long history as a painter with shows all over – even had a work in a show in Japan. Mostly I showed my paintings, hand made books and installation works at Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York City. If you’d like to find out more about my art history, here’s a small selection: http://kaywood-art.com/
Here's what some critics have said about my past work:
Art critic Lilly Wei said about Kay Wood’s work: It’s “... beautifully rendered, visually penetrable but hard, sealed, the pictures and marks embedded in many layers of translucent acrylic, layers that glow as the light passes through them, activating the color. Like fossils in resin, the configurations are preserved and presented, specimens from a cabinet of curiosities, visual tests to be decoded...”
Jeff Wright said in Cover Magazine: “...Wood sees her work as balancing aesthetic concerns with thematic propositions...The works are handsome and have a dreamy quality. Their success lies in their ability to conflate both the apparent and the apparition.”
R.B. Strauss “...Kay Wood's paintings focus on the geological and the biological. Her work is mixed media on paper on wood...Natural splendor from all quarters is found at Pentimenti Gallery.”
Roberta Fallon “...Kay Wood's collage oil paintings. The small, colorful works showcase images of objects--some manmade, some natural--floating in fields of rich color. The images--organic shapes like a pear or a fossilized flower and inorganic shapes like a glove or a shower curtain ring--are hand-drawn, then scanned and collaged onto the paintings. The play of manmade vs. nature works well against a background that suggests a cosmos of fading stars and looming black holes...[It evokes] thoughts about ecology and humankind's careless husbandry of the earth.”