Description: A series of comic strips joined together by the theme of the author's chosen profession -- cartooning -- reveals a funny and often poignant reflection on the human condition and the lives we choose to live.
Brief description: Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in the Best American Comics series, the Fantagraphics anthology series NOW, and Mad magazine. His many graphic novels include The Hypo and The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski. He lives with his family in Columbia, SC.
Review Quotes: Van Sciver's mixture of vulnerability and passion for the form makes this an unusually emotional and resonant work.-- "Publishers Weekly"