Art and the Marketplace

I read three books on the plane back from London: Jim Woodring's Weathercraft, Dan Clowes' Wilson, and James Sturm's Market Day (thanks to Gosh! and Forbidden Planet for having them in stock).

I strongly recommend the Woodring and Clowes books. Weathercraft is a perfectly-crafted hallucination from a brilliant cartoonist at the top of his game. Wilson, while uneven, has a ton of dark, funny moments, and is far more than the sum of its parts.

But of the three, Sturm's Market Day made the...