All We Ever Do is Talk About Wood by Tom Horacek
Tom Horacek’s All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood is the newest petit livre from Drawn&Quarterly. The Vancouver artist’s first book, it’s a collection of single panel gags that seem to act as a celebration of pain, suffering, and life’s slow march to the grave. But the bitterness is sweetened by Horacek’s too-cute renderings. His round-headed characters not only evoke images of Charles Schulz’s Charlie Brown, but also the Peanuts-creator’s philosophy that “happiness isn’t funny.”
WOW! Thanks for the heads up! I’m ordering now!
It’s comix like this that make me wish I were in better touch with my own misery.
Just checked out the PDF Preview of the book.
It’s really strong.
I can’t stop laughing and loving the cover of the book. PRICELESS!
I’d buy it based simply on that.
That’s freakin’ genius. It proves that if you lead a miserable existence, you might as well document the misery, or oddness, and get it published.