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Seymour Chwast

Praise for Dante's Devine Comedy

‘A clever reimagining of a classic ... the lamentations of the damned were never so much fun'

Entertainment Weekly

Seymour Chwast's delightfully comic version of Chaucer's magnum Opus - farts and all

'Seymour Chwast! Oh, how I hate him! He's already the top artist! He's already the top designer! Now he's gonna be the top graphic novelist! Seymour Chwast can go to Hell!'

Craig Yoe, author of The Art of Steve Ditko

From the nine circles of Hell all the way to Paradise, a journey through the 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy as only Seymour Chwast could imagine it.

'Dante + Seymour = Heaven'

Maira Kalman, author of

The Principles of Uncertainty

Design legend Seymour Chwast lends his "diabolically witty, devilishly expressive" style [NPR] to one of the western world's most celebrated classics.

'This timeless classic is not only charming and clever, it is so cannily rendered that it makes Dante's complex masterwork easily understood for any reader. Divine'

Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys

A Mark Twain classic gets a make-over from the illustrator that NPR has called “diabolically witty” and “devilishly expressive.”

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Seymour Chwast

Born in New York City and is a graduate of The Cooper Union, where he studied illustration and graphic design. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the studio's name was changed to the Pushpin Group, of which Seymour Chwast is the director. More information about Seymour Chwast can be found at www.pushpininc.com.