The Shock of Recognition
Boy, does Bruce Eric Kaplan have my number! I like to think that I'm a lot nicer - a lot nicer - than the characters who appear in his wonderfully stark drawings, where there are no halftones and it is always black outside even in the middle of the day (could this be a resistance to Los Angeles speaking?). But the shock of recognition, when I opened Mr Kaplan's latest collection, This Is A Bad Time (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and saw this one, was strong enough to make me drop the book.
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Have your number? He can look deep into your soul.
Posted by: PPOQ | December 29, 2004 12:08 PM
BEK is without a doubt one of the best cartoonists in the New Yorker. I've got that book 'This Is A Bad Time' too. Love it.
I would also recommend his hilarious 'The Cat That Changed My Life'. Top-notch writing.
Posted by: patricia | December 30, 2004 11:36 AM