• Murder By Inanimate Object

    Death by Plant, Murder by Scarf, And Other Inglorious Ends

    October 26, 2018 By 

    The following images and text are excerpted from The Book of Extraordinary Deaths, by Cecilia Ruiz, whose distinctive visual style and edgy sense of humor are perfectly conveyed in her new collection. The Book of Extraordinary Deaths collects the most ironic, inglorious, and otherwise bizarre demises into a single volume, from which we’ve collected a miscellany of murders by inanimate objects.

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    From THE BOOK OF EXTRAORDINARY DEATHS by Cecilia Ruiz, published by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2018 by Cecilia Ruiz.

    Cecilia Ruiz
    Cecilia Ruiz is an illustrator and graphic designer living and working in New York. She is the author of several illustrated works, including The Book of Memory Gaps, and obtained a BFA in Graphic Design from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a MFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her new illustrated collection The Book of Extraordinary Deaths is now available from Blue Rider Press.









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