Every so often I post about some form of visual art (often presented as a webcomic) whose categorization is unclear. Today’s puzzle: the books of Sloane Tanen (with photographer Stefan Hagen), for instance “Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens” (2003):
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The Publishers Weekly blurb for this book labels Tanen as a “visual artist”, while Tanen herself (in an interview on the Mommy Tracked site), asked to describe her job, replied:
Hmmm. Hard to do. I used to be a painter. Now I am sort of a 3-D cartoonist — with chickens.
