LOVF Hardcover by Jesse Reklaw

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2016-07-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 172 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781606999370
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This sketchbook chronicles the encounters, and the state of mind they create, of a mentally ill man on the run.

LOVF is the sketchbook companion of a man literally losing his mind. Homeless and broke after giving all his stuff to punk-rock heroin dealers, he ends up off his meds and on a secret quest from Portland to Brooklyn, DC, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle. Jammed with cartoons, mad schemes, psychedelic portraits, and notes from the road, LOVF is a travel journal and a mirror of the post-traumatic dreamworld its author can’t escape from, a Kerouacian meltdown of cross-hatching, spattered marker, crayons, glitter, tape, nail polish, Wite-Out, finger-painting, rain, wine, stickers, and word balloons.

About the Author

Jesse Reklaw grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master’s degree in computer science at Yale University. In 1995, while pursuing a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, he began self-publishing comics and dropped out of Yale to be a cartoonist.