Whatsa Paintoonist?

Edition excerpt from Whatsa Paintoonist Jerry Moriarty (2017): In this book, a fine artist creates a dialogue with his past and present selves through pen-and-ink and painted art. At the age of 76, the painter/cartoonist Jerry Moriarty moved from his studio loft in Manhattan, where he lived and worked for 49 years, to his childhood home in Binghamton, New York, where he lived from the age of six until he went to Pratt Institute at 18. The artist uses this as an opportunity to interrogate his past via the act of painting as a mnemonic. He invents teenager Sally, based on his sister Pat, with whom he talks and shares his paintings: "The painting becomes a time machine..."