“All The Answers”

“If you want a book that’s like an intellectual version of “Dance Moms,” this is your bag.

I’m putting this on my NPR-y bookshelf. That’s where comics go that I think appeal to what I call the NPR Comics Audience. Catchy name, right?

Stuff like Maus and Persepolis, of course, but also Tiny by David Small, Chris Ware stuff, Craig Thompson maybe, Chip Zdarsky.

Okay, not Chip Zdarsky. But he’s my favorite comics guy, so I try to give him a mention whenever comics come up.

What was that one book…Here? Is that the one where it was like an historical view of one spot and all the shit that happened there? Which turned out to be just about anything historically significant?

Did you like how it was “an” historical view? See, once I’m in NPR mode, no going back.”