*Winner of the 2008 Boston Art Awards _People's Choice Award for Books_*
"Jo Dery":http://www.jodery.com makes her impressive book debut with this collection of new stories, <I>Quietly Sure - Like the Keeper of a Great Secret</I>. Set in a personal world of seekers and guides with parallel and intertwining tales, she has created an engaging work of strange beauty. Her four main characters search for an understanding of themselves and their purpose through their peculiar encounters with each other and the forces of nature (including a hungry spider, spectacled bears, a stinging snake, a lost lizard, and a reflective moon).
With a modern folk style of drawing and boundless imagination, Jo is able to bring forth a stunningly detailed mythic world. Her background as a screenprinter lends images a depth of field that brings visual richness to each page. Things start off with the dispersal of some vicious seeds and wind their way through six stories of new discoveries, things gained and lost, new partnerships, and lessons learned. But like the keeper of a great secret, we wouldn’t want to give away much more--the splendor is in the journey.
-88 pages, 6.75” wide x 5” tall, softcover
-full-color cover, blue ink on white interior pages
-printed by a family-owned press in Oakland, CA on 100% post-consumer recycled paper with soy-based inks
*Reviews:*
"...Jo Dery's _Quietly Sure — Like the Keeper of a Great Secret_ is filled with brief, mystical, poetic, earthy fairy tales."-Greg Cook
"http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/84324-Their-back-pages/?rel=inf":http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/84324-Their-back-pages/?rel=inf
"This is another beautiful book from Little Otsu: well-crafted, well-designed and lovely to look at. Dery's art has a slightly immersive quality (not unlike Theo Ellsworth's approach) but also makes the reader look at the page perhaps more than read it."
"http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/short-reviews-jo-dery-sleazy-slice.html":http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/short-reviews-jo-dery-sleazy-slice.html
"If I could clap for a book, I would without a doubt for Jo Dery’s newest release, Quietly Sure - Like the Keeper of a Great Secret." -Yujean Park, Feminist Review
"http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/05/quietly-sure-like-keeper-of-great.html":http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/05/quietly-sure-like-keeper-of-great.html
<i>Jo Dery is an artist, screen printer, and animator living in Providence, RI. Her artwork has appeared in Lumpen Magazine and the SPX Anthology and has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles. She just completed a residency at the renowned MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.</i>
<p><strong>Winner of the 2008 Boston Art Awards <em>People’s Choice Award for Books</em></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jodery.com">Jo Dery</a> makes her impressive book debut with this collection of new stories, <I>Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret</I>. Set in a personal world of seekers and guides with parallel and intertwining tales, she has created an engaging work of strange beauty. Her four main characters search for an understanding of themselves and their purpose through their peculiar encounters with each other and the forces of nature (including a hungry spider, spectacled bears, a stinging snake, a lost lizard, and a reflective moon).</p>
<p>With a modern folk style of drawing and boundless imagination, Jo is able to bring forth a stunningly detailed mythic world. Her background as a screenprinter lends images a depth of field that brings visual richness to each page. Things start off with the dispersal of some vicious seeds and wind their way through six stories of new discoveries, things gained and lost, new partnerships, and lessons learned. But like the keeper of a great secret, we wouldn’t want to give away much more—the splendor is in the journey.</p>
<p>-88 pages, 6.75” wide x 5” tall, softcover<br />
-full-color cover, blue ink on white interior pages<br />
-printed by a family-owned press in Oakland, CA on 100% post-consumer recycled paper with soy-based inks</p>
<p><strong>Reviews:</strong><br />
“…Jo Dery’s <em>Quietly Sure — Like the Keeper of a Great Secret</em> is filled with brief, mystical, poetic, earthy fairy tales.”-Greg Cook<br />
<a href="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/84324-Their-back-pages/?rel=inf">http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/84324-Their-back-pages/?rel=inf</a></p>
<p>“This is another beautiful book from Little Otsu: well-crafted, well-designed and lovely to look at. Dery’s art has a slightly immersive quality (not unlike Theo Ellsworth’s approach) but also makes the reader look at the page perhaps more than read it.”<br />
<a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/short-reviews-jo-dery-sleazy-slice.html">http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/short-reviews-jo-dery-sleazy-slice.html</a></p>
<p>“If I could clap for a book, I would without a doubt for Jo Dery’s newest release, Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret.” -Yujean Park, Feminist Review<br />
<a href="http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/05/quietly-sure-like-keeper-of-great.html">http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/05/quietly-sure-like-keeper-of-great.html</a></p>
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