Capacity
Capacity is returning for a third printing in a deluxe and unique stitched, softcover binding. Between printings, collector demand for this book has driven the price of previous editions to ten and twenty times its cover price.
Capacity was counted among the best books of its original publication year by the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice and the Huffington Post among many others. Since Capacity, Theo Ellsworth has garnered two Best American Comics selections, a Lynd Ward Prize Honor and has served on the Small Press Expo Ignatz Awards Jury. In addition to numerous gallery shows, his artwork has appeared on album covers for Ramona Falls and Flying Lotus.
Capacity will be released alongside the highly anticipated third and final volume of Theo Ellworth's the Understanding Monster trilogy, which the New York Times calls "an urgent (and often very funny) attempt to explain a coocoo-rococo cosmology made up of garbled fragments of role-playing games, Transformers episodes, relaxation exercises and horror movies."
A limited quantity of this special edition of Capacity will include a signed and numbered artist plate tipped into the book.
Theo Ellsworth
is a self-taught artist and storyteller living in the mountains of Montana with a witch doctor and their two sons. He is a co-founder of the Pony Club Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and has served on the jury of the Small Press Expo's Ignatz Awards. His art, which Pitchfork describes as "a combination of Where the Wild Things Are, a fever dream, a pagan woodland ceremony, and a notebook doodle," has shown at galleries across the country, including Giant Robot in New York and Los Angeles, and has graced the covers of several popular musicians' albums, including Ramona Falls and Flying Lotus. Most recently, he has collaborated with Viscosity Theatre on the stage production of Mystery Mark, incorporating his artwork into the stage design and costumes.
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