Disquiet - Noah Van Sciver
A
dozen or so short stories, from the comic to the poignant to the
fantastic and weird. In one, a sort of modern take on Hansel and Gretel
makes an unexpected turn when the girl finds not a witch but a floating
cow head in the woods. In another, a man
falls into a hole while spelunking and discovers a brutal world of
underground mole people. Other stories seem to be slice-of-life
autobiographical like Pekar's work, or just tales of everyday people
like Daniel Clowes'. A young man meets his genial but largely
uninterested deadbeat father for the first time in a decade. A girl
works at a bakery until she has saved enough for a car to move away.
Mostly black and white art, with meticulously detailed hatching and
shading. The scenes of rocky shores and New Mexico desert are
masterworks of freehand drawing by themselves. [4]
