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Electric Works

April 29 - April 29, 2011

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1360 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Book Launch & Art Exhibit Everything Is Its Own Reward
For one night only, Paul Madonna invites fans of his enigmatic art series All Over Coffee to celebrate the release of his second book, Everything Is Its Own Reward, at an exhibition of more than two-dozen original drawings at Electric Works Gallery in San Francisco. Paul will be signing books in the gallery, surrounded by his highly rendered pen & ink drawings that range in size from 9x12 to 30x40 inches. The evening commemorates over 500 published All Over Coffee strips and seven years in the San Francisco Chronicle, and will be the launch of a national book tour, which includes events in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York and Chicago. "Paul Madonna has not only pressed graphic fiction way beyond its present boundaries, he has created a new and stunning art form where the stand-alone brilliant visuals and the hauntingly human words synthesize into a pure and irreducible aesthetic vision. This book taught me something fundamental and true and beautiful about the ineffable thereness and thingness of life. Everything is its Own Reward is a work of genius." -- Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Severance, and other works "The book is fantastic. Of time and tenderness. Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text. Ethereal and serious at once. The book is its own reward." -- Maira Kalman, author of The Principles of Uncertainty