The SmythesA CLASSIC 1930s COMIC STRIP: The New Yorkers first art editor satirizes the petit bourgeoisie in these stylishly eccentric cartoons with echoes of Cheever and Wodehouse. Rea Irvin was The New Yorkers first art editor and creator of the magazines iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilly. In 1930, he ventured into new territory with the comic strip The Smythes. The Smythescomprised of John, Margie, and their two forgettable children, Willie

hailed by Stephen King and many others

Danish illustrator John Kenn Mortensen’s surreal black and white graphic novel will take Sledgehammer to the limits of reality

In this gripping work

the massive bombings of WWII

selling out

Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

” democracy

the linguistic opposition between speech and language

National Book Award-winner William T

movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story)

and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America