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Sure, sure, now that Obama is president, we’re all about hope. I’m all for hope. But fear, anxiety, and paranoia can’t just be swept under the rug. They can be captured in a sketchbook, though, and Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov has done that with 99 Fears.

The drawing above, from Solakov’s book, reads:

Fear #78: “A desperate man wants to commit suicide by jumping from a cliff. Here comes an unexpected obstacle – there is no water down there, only stones, very hard and ominously looking stones.”

And there are 98 more where that came from. 99 Fears is both witty and neurotic, but tends to veer a little more to the latter, with pages and pages of modern anxiety crafted into little pen-and-ink drawings.