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Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure.
One artist's quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde.
Featuring radical Argentinian art collective Tucumán Arde, conceptual artists Pope L. and Marta Minujín, filmmakers Alice Guy Blaché and Pere Portabella, Mexican superhero Superbarrio Gómez, and more, Failure Biographies celebrates the struggles of great 20th and 21st century innovators who attempted - and failed - to change the world.
About the author
Johnny Damm is the author of The Domestic World: A Practical Guide (Little Red Leaves), Your Favorite Song (Battle Stories) (Essay Press), and The Old Man's Illustrated Library: Issues # 36 & # 5 (No Press). His work has appeared in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, the Rumpus, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He is editor-in-chief of A Bad Penny Review and Opo Books & Objects. Visit him online at johnnydamm.com.
