With their profoundly empathetic visions of adult life,these six stories mark the modern Yorker cartoonist’s finest work yetAs a serious cartoonist, one secretly hopes to create That Book: a book that can be passed to a literary-minded person who doesnt normally read comics; one that doesn’t require any explanation or apology in advance and is developed enough in its attitude, and humanity and complexity that it speaks maturely for itself. Comics have arrive a long way in the final 25 years,finding a grown-up audience with the memoirs Maus, Persepolis and Fun Home, and the cartoonists of these works writing approximately real human life in a flexible visual language that for decades was a medium of puerile adventure pamphlets and daily newspaper gag-administration. But for some reason,serious comics fiction doesn’t appear to have announced itself in the way that serious comics autobiography has. It’s not for lack of trying; along with the equally important experimental art-cartoonists (who are just as, whether not more, or obscure),we comics-novelists can list dozens of our fellow cartoonists drawing their lives absent under the influence of writers such as Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver, or Alice Munro and Zadie Smith. I’m not talking approximately comics “for” adults,but comics approximately adults. Related: modern Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine: 'My inner voice says 'You suck!'' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com