My Books
Hamlet: Prince of Pigs, the first Shakespearean Tragic-Comic, is a porcine version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Signed copies are on sale at The Folger Shakespeare Library's Shop and The Drama Book Shop. Paperbacks and ebooks are available at Amazon.
Anchovius Caesar: The Decomposition of a Romaine Salad, my second Shakespearean Tragic-Comic, is an underwater version of "Julius Caesar," in which the doomed star is an anchovy, the Romans are romaine lettuce leaves, and the Countrymen are croutons. Signed copies can be purchased at The Drama Book Shop and the Folger Shakespeare Library's Shop. Paperbacks and ebooks are available at Amazon.
The first edition of In the Floyd Archives, a graphic novel based on Freud's case histories, published by Pantheon in 2001, is out of print but you can still find it on Amazon.
In the Floyd Archives is out in a new edition, available at Politics & Prose, IPBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
My Essays in Anthologies, Catalogs, Literary Journals
"The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy," my analysis and appreciation, is in The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & The Gang and the Meaning of Life. Here's what lexicographer and prose expert Bryan Garner wrote about my piece!
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"It's Complicated," the tale of my twisted relationship to Freud, is the lead essay in On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, an anthology from Princeton University Press, also sold at Barnes & Noble & Amazon. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association said it helps "define, explicate, and celebrate our ambivalence toward Freud." The Washington Post said, "Entertainingly diverse. Surprises — like Freudian slips — are everywhere." The Wall Street Journal called it "Touching ... Powerful ... Lovely"!
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"Mind the Gap," my essay about the meaningful space between Alfred E. Neuman's front teeth, is in The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain!: A Library of America Special Publication. "Vibrant reflections ... fond appreciations from the likes of Roz Chast and R. Crumb ... surprisingly multifaceted," says Publishers Weekly.
"Alice Is a Looking Glass," an essay about my strange collection of Alices, is in Issue 13 of The Bennington Review.
I wrote "The Fine Art of Loving & Liking: How to Survive the Emoji Economy" for Steve Heller's Education of a Design Writer.
My essay "Ripped From the Headlines," appeared in Shock of the News, the National Gallery of Art's exhibition catalog. The book is rare now, but you can try to buy it here. And here's a good review of the exhibition and the catalog.
"A Map, A Tonic, A Shower Curtain," my piece on "New Yorkistan," Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz's magical New Yorker cover after 9/11, appears in the anthology You Are Here, NYC:The Soul of the City.
And here's a NYT review that includes this book..
And here's a NYT review that includes this book..
The Best American Comics Criticism includes my essay on Krazy Kat, "George Herriman: The Cat in the Hat,," which originally appeared in The New York Review of Books as "His Inner Cat."
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My essay "Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead," first published in The Atlantic, is in the 10th Edition of Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing.
