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The River at Night cartoonist revisits his early-aughts breakthrough

In the two decades since Curses first hit the shelves, River at Night cartoonist Kevin Huizenga has taken his rightful place on a short A-list of comics experimentalists. Deep research and loopy cartooning serve up philosophical musings while maintaining a classic comic-strip devotion to the gag. Huizenga remains one of the funniest and smartest cartoonists working today, and now, the very book that heralded his arrival as a talent to watch is available once more in deluxe paperback as the early work of a now true genius.

The short stories collected herewith confront the textures of mortality in unique and peculiar ways. Central character Glenn Ganges is a seemingly middle-class, suburbanite whose blank-eyed wonderment at the everyday brings together diverse aspects of our worldlike golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees, and hallucinatory visioninto a complete experience as multifaceted as each of our own lives.

Curses

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    A Paperback / softback by Kevin Huizenga

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      Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
      Published 20 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781770466951
      978-1770466951
      ISBN-10 1770466959
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The River at Night cartoonist revisits his early-aughts breakthrough

      In the two decades since Curses first hit the shelves, River at Night cartoonist Kevin Huizenga has taken his rightful place on a short A-list of comics experimentalists. Deep research and loopy cartooning serve up philosophical musings while maintaining a classic comic-strip devotion to the gag. Huizenga remains one of the funniest and smartest cartoonists working today, and now, the very book that heralded his arrival as a talent to watch is available once more in deluxe paperback as the early work of a now true genius.

      The short stories collected herewith confront the textures of mortality in unique and peculiar ways. Central character Glenn Ganges is a seemingly middle-class, suburbanite whose blank-eyed wonderment at the everyday brings together diverse aspects of our worldlike golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees, and hallucinatory visioninto a complete experience as multifaceted as each of our own lives.

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