Tired of Disney’s Cinderella yet? Artist Camille Rose Garcia presents CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER an awesome and original spin on the classic story. Garcia’s dark yet whimsical style has earned her resounding praise and a cult following worldwide. Each page of this new volume is filled with colorful illustrations of a sinister fairy tale with graphic novel details too. Join Garcia for a talk about the book and her work that includes other fairy tales such as Snow White and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Camille Rose Garcia’s paintings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairy tales are critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias, blending nostalgic pop-culture references with a satirical slant on modern society. Her work has been displayed internationally and featured in numerous magazines, including Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, and Modern Painter. The San Jose Museum of Art exhibited a retrospective of her work titled Tragic Kingdom, accompanied by a catalog of the same name. She is also the illustrator of Snow White by the Brothers Grimm and the New York Times bestseller Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. She lives in northern California.