1-800-Mice Pierre Oscar Lévy there’s no shortage of narratives

there’s no shortage of narratives about adolescence

By Mark Siegel

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

Doug TenNapel

negotiate relationships

1-800-Mice Pierre Oscar Lévy there’s no shortage of narrativesBy 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.