I do not remember the last time I read a comic book or graphic novel. I wasn’t much of a comic geek back in the day, although I did enjoy my Garfield and Far Side collections in between classes in junior high, and occasionally read Archie just because my best friend did. But when Ellen Lindner queried us with her graphic novel, Undertow, I jumped at the chance to read it because it was something different.
I’ve always been a fan of the single panel cartoon ever since the days of Larson’s The Far Side. As a child, along with reading the Sunday comics, the three single panel cartoons in the back of the Parade magazine were also required reading. Nigel Sutherland, one of the UK’s top cartoonists, is a master at such humor and has collected over 200 of his cartoons in this book published this year through Lulu.<
The stressful thing about a recession is this, you and I can’t do much about it. When crying and hand wringing have run their course, there is only one other option – laughter. Jungmin Joo’s second cartoon book on Lulu is called Need a Bailout and it reflects the world around us in wickedly clever cartoons.
