| Leanne Shapton | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1973-06-25)June 25, 1973 (age 51) Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
| http://www.leanneshapton.com/ | |
Leanne Shapton (born June 25, 1973) inMississauga, Ontario[1] is a Canadian artist andgraphic novelist, now living inNew York City. She is the art editor for theNew York Review of Books. Her second work,Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, was optioned for a film slated to starBrad Pitt andNatalie Portman.[2] The novel, which takes the form of anauction catalog, uses photographs and accompanying captions to chronicle the romance and subsequent breakup of a couple via the relationship's significant possessions or "artifacts".
Shapton's first work,Was She Pretty?, was a nominee for theDoug Wright Award, a Canadian award for comics and graphic novels, in 2007. It explored, via a series of line-drawn illustrations, the issues of relationship jealousy and insecurity as told through the imagined superior traits of the subjects' exes.
Shapton has beenart director at newspapers and magazines.[3] Formerly associated withSaturday Night,Maclean's and theNational Post in Canada, she has worked as art director for theop-ed page atThe New York Times.[2] She has created hand lettering for a number of book covers, includingChuck Palahniuk's 2003 novelDiary. She is also a partner inJ&L Books.[4]
Her autobiographical bookSwimming Studies (2012) deals with her youth as a national competitive swimmer, who made it as far as the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic trials. It is a "meditation on the gruelling years of training, the ways swimming is refracted through her memory now".[5] It won theNational Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography).[6][7]
Shapton created the "armpit sex drawing" forSpike Jonze's 2013 filmHer.
Guestbook, a collection of short writings and images, was published in 2019.[8]
