Street Cop by Robert Coover, Art Spiegelman

The collaboration of two American greats: master of metafiction Robert Coover and graphic legend Art Spiegelman.

This illustrated tale—set in a dystopian world of infectious living dead, murderous robocops, aging street walkers, and walking streets—scrutinizes the arc of the American myth. Coover and Spiegelman bring their combined force to bear on technocracy and the police state.

Street Cop challenges us to inhabit the mind of a bumbling policeman driven by a nostalgia for the gutter. Author, illustrator, and protagonist, wade through the characters, tropes, messages, and genres—from noir and horror to the police procedural—that populate the fragmented American psyche. In doing so, Street Cop insists on the possibility of emergent empathy, even as it maps the malignant structures of our time. As Coover has argued, "in its profanity, fiction sanctifies life."

Robert Lowell Coover (1932-2024) was an American writer, famous for his metafiction novels.

Art Spiegelman (born 1948 in Stockholm) is an American comic book artist and illustrator, a leading figure in the American underground comic strip scene of the 1970s-1980s, and the author of the famous Maus.

published by Isolarii
2021, 106 pages, 7 x 11 cm