What Am I Doing Here?
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Author
Publication
2016 - New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Language
English
Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101681370492
- ISBN-139781681370491
- AmazonB01AQNYP6U
- Library of Congress Control Number2016014869
- OCLC Control Number935983712
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781681370491
- Open LibraryOL28599667M
Classifications
- LCCNC1429.D34 2016
- LCCNC1429 .D34 2016
Description
"What Am I Doing Here? is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics. In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator--drawing advertisements and cartoons for Life, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and many others--Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them into more than just one-off jokes. With an inimitable mixture of wit, earnestness, and enigmatic surrealism, Dean uses this most ephemeral of forms to explore the deepest mysteries of human existence. What Am I Doing Here? depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which everyone is naked but act like they're clothed--a world of club-wielding commuters and byzantine inventions, secret fears, and perverse satisfactions. Through it all strolls (or crawls, or floats, or stumbles) Dean's unclad Everyman, searching for love, happiness, and the answers to life's biggest questions"--
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