 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized cadre of pithy draftsmen, genius doodlers, and fine-artistic cartoonists, and buffets them with articles examining just what it is that these people are doing and why the world should know about it. Featuring work from David Shrigley, Tucker Nichols, and many others — including an unreleased Art Spiegelman sketchbook — the latest quarterly from McSweeney's presents a new kind of contemporary art. Average Customer Rating: 
Great Stories, Great Graphic Design
| Customer Rating: | My first foray into the world of McSweeney's has me totally sold. This issue comes with three parts.
1.) Art Spiegelman's notebook of sketches he used to keep himself drawing with no intent of publishing. It's a fun, quick read and a charming look at something private from someone I love.
2.) A small booklet of "funny" art that includes art with text in it. The intro is really full of itself, since it's written by Dave Eggers. C'est la Eggers.
3.) Short stories, which are mostly mind-blowing; I've used several of them teaching college literature already. Stephen King's story isn't exactly new territory for him, but reading him is always a pleasure. My personal favorite was Jim Shepard's "Classical Scenes of Farewell," which was outrageously dark but just straight up amazing. Also of note is "The Crack", the story of a group of terminal patients who form a friendship and venture into a fissure in a busy street and find a huge cave. If this sounds like the Goonies, the fact that none of them will live more than five years makes the whole story horrifyingly tender. |
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