"Polaroids" for Good Minnesotan #3

This is it! This is what I've been killing myself over for awhile now. (The main thing, anyway.)
As usual, it converged in one giant sleepless night. At least it wasn't a lonely one. Thanks for David, Jane, and Abby for the company.

Abby also appears in Good Minnesotan #3, and her comic is all about tiny houses! Unplanned overlap.

Highly suggested:
Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Tatsumi's comics contain unforgettable images. A man fucks a dog. A children's book author becomes a pornographer. A son abandons his elderly mother who has become a burden. Tatsumi is empathetic in the truest sense, staying with characters when they are most full of craving, desperation, fear, and anger.

Only a few years of his early work have been published in English so far (1969-71 at the moment - The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye by Drawn & Quarterly), and I'm very excited to be seeing this stuff. Tatsumi was at the forefront of a small group of Japanese underground cartoonists, nicknamed Gekiga manga, which was a movement unrelated to American undergrounds.
Adrian Tomine is designing and editing these new D&Q volumes, and his restrained design sense fits Tatsumi's human horrors perfectly.

I just listened to an interview with Tomine, and amazingly, he says that he doesn't think of himself as a strong designer, nor does he like that part of the process! It is always reassuring to me to be confronted with artists who are so oblivious to their own strengths that it's funny.