What Am I Doing Here?

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What Am I Doing Here?

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 illustratorâ€”drawing advertisements and cartoons for Life, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and many other publicationsâ€”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 to a deeper, stranger purpose. 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?, Deanâ€™s second book and perhaps his best, depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which everyone is naked but acts like theyâ€™re clothedâ€”a world of club-wielding commuters and byzantine inventions, secret fears and perverse satisfactions. Through it all strolls (or crawls, or floats, or stumbles) Deanâ€™s unclad Everyman, searching for love, happiness, and the answers to lifeâ€™s biggest questions.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer New York Review Comics
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 3TWOWA0018EW
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2016-10-11
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781681370491

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	New York Review Comics
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	3TWOWA0018EW
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	2016-10-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781681370491

What Am I Doing Here?

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