![]() ![]() Who wouldn’t want to drink in the “Your Friends Have Kids Bar” or grab a latte in “Gentrificciato,” or a macchiato at “Artisanal Kick in the Back” where the Wi-Fi password is “Dialogue Is Not for Exposition 2007.” Nick frequents them all as a loner, until one day he meets Wren.īut this is not a boy-meets-girl scenario it is, rather, a scenario about a young man evolving, moving forward a few steps and then back a few. McPhail has great fun with these gathering-places-cum-work-stations, giving them terrific names and portraying them in well-drawn black-and-white scenes. ![]() Reflecting the gig economy, he tells us that, as a freelance illustrator, he tends to work in public places. His tale follows one fellow, Nick, from a brief glimpse of his childhood happiness to a young adulthood spent, it seems, moving from one coffee place or bar to another. ![]() IN AN ERA WHEN alienation and anomie are daily topics, Will McPhail’s graphic novel In. ![]()
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