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Jul. 21, 2021 by Guest

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Guest Review by Maura Spiegel   The Edinburgh, Scotland-based New Yorker cartoonist, Will McPhail, is not the first to wonder what our psychic life would look like if we could draw it, but he does something quite special with the idea in IN.  His narrator/protagonist, Nick Ross, is an artist who spends a lot of time in hipster coffee places and suffers from an inability to establish authentic connections with others; it all feels like performance to him.   The witty portrayal of his muted black and white existence explodes into color when a superficial exchange with the plumber fixing his… Read More

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