Yet if there is a Schulz comic, it is locked in the lighthouse in Hicksville. Personally, these details draw me to him since they are a fun house mirror of my own biography and I must admit I hoped that Schulz’s drawing and writing may have merged at some point. In fact, he taught art to high school students as a way to support himself. Schulz was born in 1892 in a small town in Poland, Drohobycz, where he basically stayed his entire life. In its place, Schulz has a Romanticism that lies in contrast with the Modernist settings and conflicts of his writing. But the Brothers Quay have a cruelty in their work that Schulz’s work lacks. Now having read the source material, I can see a connection in the dream reality and empty city streets of both. Their version of Street of Crocodiles is one of my favorites of their films. I was lead to Bruno Schulz by the Brothers Quay.
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