JACK SURVIVES by Jerry Moriarty

RAW Books & Graphics, 1984, First edition, 40 pp., 10 1/2" X 15", Illustrated softcover with printed acetate jacket.

Fine

Oversized collection of strips by Jerry Moriarty. Jack Survives, which Moriarty drew since 1977, is a reflection on the life and times of the artist’s father, a phone company employee who died in 1953. It is also a meditation on the nature of common-place events in what might fairly be described as an unexceptional life. In a tangible sense, Moriarty projects himself into the strips, living through the moments of banal incidents that, in some odd, ambiguous ways, distill and summarize the tome of an ordinary urban existence.