{"product_id":"aid-for-ukraine-the-stoneware-jug-by-stefan-lorenzutti-john-porcellino","title":"[AID FOR UKRAINE] The Stoneware Jug by Stefan Lorenzutti \u0026 John Porcellino","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoem-comix by Stefan Lorenzutti (words) and John Porcellino (pictures)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBored Wolves co-edition with Nieves and Spit and a Half\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e×\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAid for Ukraine. We’ll be donating all sales from this book to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/voices.org.ua\/en\/who-we-are\/\"\u003eVoices of Children\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e “a Ukraine-based aid organization that provides psychological support to children who have witnessed war. It uses art therapy and storytelling to support children’s well-being, and provides financial support to families who have suffered as a result of war.” Voices of Children has been active in Ukraine’s east since 2014, when Ukraine was first invaded, and has since expanded its endeavors to the entire country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Consisting of 13 of Lorenzutti’s short poems, adapted into comics by John P., \u003ci\u003eThe Stoneware Jug\u003c\/i\u003e is plainspoken, lyrical, and lovely. Poet and cartoonist are the proverbial match made in heaven. The resulting visual poetry, observant, wry, and epiphanic, hits close to home. The sheer emptiness and quiet of the pages amaze me. This feels like art for cool gray days, or biting cold nights, but it’s full of life, and I could read it over and over with pleasure. In fact, I have.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Charles Hatfield, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Best Comics of 2022”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stoneware Jug\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poem-comics by Stefan Lorenzutti (words) and John Porcellino (pictures), in which American comix legend Porcellino (\u003ci\u003eKing-Cat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThoreau at Walden\u003c\/i\u003e) “pours” the adapted poems into his pen-and-ink panels, as if into a handmade vessel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach one-page comic is a seasonal diorama of sorts, preserving a moment in time unfolding in the interstices of time: between the chinks of a log cabin in the Polish Highlands, fissures in late-spring ice, and the gap between coziness and creeping concern on a brutally cold winter’s night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the end, \u003ci\u003eThe Stoneware Jug\u003c\/i\u003e is a quest for comfort zones, suffused throughout with the aromatic promise of panettone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published by \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nievesbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eNieves\u003c\/a\u003e, Bored Wolves, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.spitandahalf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eSpit and a Half\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bored Wolves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47875361636682,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/IMG-0318.webp?v=1712500188","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/aid-for-ukraine-the-stoneware-jug-by-stefan-lorenzutti-john-porcellino","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}