Mother May I?: A Post-Floydian Folly - Softcover

Boxer, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949093174 ISBN 13: 9781949093179

Publisher: Ipbooks, 2019

Synopsis

Mother May I? is the sequel to the comic In the Floyd Archives. In this hilarious riff on the work of the child psychoanalysts Melanie Klein and DW Winnicott, the stars are Melanin Klein, a small black sheep who adores talking about ta-tas and widdlers, plus her three kids – Melittle Klein, a bitter kitten, Little Hans, a violent bunny, and Squiggle Piggle, a pig whose tail creates pictures when pulled.

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From the Back Cover:

•    Hilarious and terrifying! ... smart and silly ... Such darkness and such lightness, so edifying and so absurd! - Alison Bechdel, Fun Home and Are You My Mother? 
•    Just wonderful ... There is a great wolflike discipline hiding beneath the 'improvisational' tone. - Daniel Menaker, The Treatment
•    In Mother May I? anthropomorphic drawings comic alive -- enacting the complex struggles that hex and vex us all. - Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth
•    Having adored The Floyd Archives, I can't say enough how thrilling it is to see the bestiary ride again, into the forests of Klein and Winnicott-the-Pooh... sorry... the atmosphere of free-association is infectious. - Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
•     Sarah Boxer's drawings are delightful ... She has completely internalized the psychoanalytic worldview that she satirizes. - Michael Roth, Tablet   
•      Boxer's graphic storytelling has a "half-conscious, half-unconscious" quality. ... I feel I am floating halfway between a dream and a dream interpretation  - Austin Ratner, The Jump Artist 
•     She is just as steeped in cartooning tradition as she is in analytic lore. Boxer belongs to the line of erudite cartooning exemplified by Jules Feiffer, David Levine and Edward Gorey.  - Jeet Heer, The Comics Journal

About the Author:

Sarah Boxer was born in Denver, Colorado, and earned her B.A. in philosophy at Harvard. She was, for many years, a critic and reporter at The New York Times, where she covered photography, psychoanalysis, philosophy, art, sex, and animals. At the age of eleven she published her first cartoon and at fifteen she began reading Freud. She lives with her husband, son, and two cats in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ipbooks
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1949093174
• ISBN 13: 9781949093179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188