Hell by Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller

A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its realms of
torture around the world across literature, religions, culture, and
folklore, gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by writing on the
origins and details of each hell.
Whether it's a real place, a human construct, an idea, or a superstition,hell is
a grotesque demimonde in literature, cultures, religions, and folklore
throughout the ages. There are many different hells to be found, each one
distressing in its own way. But they all share the same essence: they
areterrible places guarded by one or more evil spirits, where punishment
is split into various levels of damnation.
Those who wish to venture on this dangerous journey beyond the gates of the
underworld will find their guide intwo extraordinary authors and graphic
designers: Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast. And like Dante in the
footsteps of Virgil, they will be able to navigate their way through the burning
(or icy!) dark realms that lurk in the heart of the human imagination-the Jewish
Gehenna, the Sunni Jahannam, the Swahili hell, the Mayan myth of Xibalba,
and many others-as well as all the characters who have created hell, visited it,
or been involved in more or less fortunate descents into it.
Equally appealing to fans of the literary hellscape of Dante's Inferno, the bright
utopia of The Good Place, and the dark humor of Edward Gorey, Hell offers a
feast of chillingly hilarious graphic art and illuminating content that
comprehensively plumbs the multiple depths of the underworld.

Location: New York City
Steven Heller is the author, editor, and coauthor of more than two hundred
books on design, typography, political and satirical art, and illustration
(Including Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York ),
and fifteen of them with Seymour Chwast. For thirty-three years he was
alternately an art director and book columnist for the New York Times Book
Review . Currently he is the co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design
program in New York.
Seymour Chwast is co-founder of Push Pin Studios and has been director of
the Pushpin Group, where he reintroduced graphic styles and transformed
them into a contemporary vocabulary. His designs and illustrations have been

Chronicle Books
On Sale: Oct 10/23
8.27 x 5.79 • 128 pages
9781797225616 • $37.95 • CL - Hardcover, 64 fullcolor illustrations, unjacketed
Comics & Graphic Novels / History