Stripping a Book to the Bone: Horn! The Collected Reviews by Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas is the haiku poet of book reviews.


As regular readers of The Rumpus know, Thomas has been deconstructing contemporary literature in nine-panel comics since 2010.  His Horn! reviews are spare, compressed works of art that infer the merits of a book rather than tediously bloviating about plot, character and theme like some reviewers (including this correspondent) are wont to do.  The first panel is usually reserved for Thomas' interpretation of the book's cover, then we're...