![]() ![]() I waited many weeks to get this book from my library system and three or four people in my house devoured it-almost 200 cartoons in the book-in one sitting! So read it! I haven't read many out-of-the-park graphic novels or comic series this year, so this-even at 4 stars-has emerged as a fave of 2023. IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Will McPhail illustrated by Will McPhail RELEASE DATE: Cartoonist McPhail’s debut graphic novel follows a youngish artist’s desperate search for authenticity in a culture where true selves hide behind performative, perfunctory interactions. Here's just a few of his cartoons (but if you work at it you can find lots more of them on Instagram and at the New Yorker archive): Here he is being interviewed and talking about some of his cartoons: I laughed aloud a few times, and smiled a lot. ![]() The book is divided into sections, one with vermin (pigeons and rats-he has a degree in zoology!), one on love, and so on. He kind of has a perfect New Yorker cartoon sensibility, which is good for me, a subscriber. ![]() I loved Will McPhail's first book, In, one of my faves of that year, finding it very moving, and like very much this, his second book, a collection of his New Yorker cartoons (and some more stuff), where he has been published since 2014. ![]()
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