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Mattie Lubchansky: Simplicity (Hardcover, 2025, Penguin Random House)

Publisher copy:

From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new …

Not bad, but maybe not what I was expecting

This is a nice little graphic novel. I'm kind of bummed out that it wasn't funnier; Mattie is very funny; many of her online cartoons are some of the funniest I've seen. This graphic novel isn't funny, or at least isn't funny in the same way.

I also have trouble reading it as a novel, in particular following it as any kind of story or character arc. It feels a lot like it just...ends.