Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy French 2024 Taiwanese-born and Brooklyn-based artist Mu

Taiwanese-born and Brooklyn-based artist Mu Pan invites viewers to examine their own nature as they look upon the broken bodies and battle elds that appear throughout his intricate

-- Booklist (starred review)

gritty story in the vein of classic detective noirs

and American Dog (Bolt)

Earth's favorite Kryptonian is one of the most recognized characters in pop culture

Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy French 2024 Taiwanese-born and Brooklyn-based artist MuFrom the publisher: A new collection of portraits of cultural legends from the only cartoonist to have graced the covers of both New Yorker and Mad magazine, and seemingly everything in between. For years, acclaimed artist Drew Friedman has chronicled an oddball, alternate history of American pop culture, where forgotten character actors, old Jewish comedians, comic book artists, and liver spotted elevator operators are afforded the spotlight over