1-800-Mice Pierre Oscar Lévy Tomine recounts the highlights of

Tomine recounts the highlights of his career through a series of cringe-worthy encounters

Chicago’s Black press—from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets—was home to some of the best cartoonists in America

except for Cat

Doug TenNapel

an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed only by the small family of cats that lives in the attic

1-800-Mice Pierre Oscar Lévy Tomine recounts the highlights ofBy Matthew Thurber. Published by PictureBox. Hardcover, 160 pages, B&W, 2011. "1 800 MICE" is Matthew Thurber's comic book anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park: a cross between Thomas Pynchon, Robert Altman and J. R. R. Tolkien. Over the course of the story we meet Peace Punk, a punker on the verge of a bourgeois lifestyle; Tom Chief, a beat cop with an identity crisis; and Groomfiend, a daffy creature who leads the narrative.