Eric Haven

I literally did pick this book up for how much I liked the cover. The art is fantastic -- the sort of colorful retro ugly art that brings to mind Fletcher Hanks and Basil Wolverton -- and many of the gags made me laugh out loud. I wish that the book had been a little more substantial, and maybe that everything didn't seem to have a similar punchline. I would definitely recommend it, though: where else will you read about the adventures of Bed Man, dream lord of the night sky! (His bed is show more bigger on the inside!) show less

One of the blurbers described the author as a parodist, which I might or might not have figured out for myself. His straightforward artwork and lettering do hearken back to Golden Age comics, though his stories are far more enigmatic than anything done back then. In fact, they often trickle off into ambiguous conclusions which are difficult to think of as 'endings'. His characters rarely speak, which to me is unfortunate, as their enigmatic, lyrical musings are lovely and seem somehow to be show more profound. One aspect of the collection which I liked was the widely varying lengths of the stories; one never knows if one is embarking upon a sixty-page marathon or one of almost newspaper-length brevity. The collection is likable, but not, to me, particularly spectacular. show less