Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, 318 pages

Jenny Lawson, proprietor of TheBlogess.com, weaves an unholy tapestry of her childhood: squirrel puppets, deer pockets, bobcats in the house, bread bag shoes.  She also takes readers on a brief tour of her courtship with her husband, her struggles with domesticity and motherhood, and coping with unstable health. Eventually there's a taxidermied Hamlet mouse in a cape.

​I expected to be entertained by this (mostly true) memoir and I was not disappointed. There's something about Lawson's weirdness and the way she recounts the strange tales of her life thusfar that is raw and peculiar and bizarre and beautiful all at once.

 

Geraldine the Music Mouse, by Leo Lionni

  Geraldine the Music Mouse, by Leo Lionni, 36 pages

Geraldine has never heard music, until she finds a block of cheese and as she nibbles it, the form of a mouse playing its tale becomes visible and then plays music at night.  Which... is... a thing, I guess...?  I don't know- kind of weak conceptually, but the art is on point, as usual.

Very Casual, by Michael DeForge

 Very Casual, by Michael DeForge, 152 pages

This isn't really a graphic novel, per se, more like a collection of graphic shorts.  I really enjoyed some of them, thought others were just okay, and really liked some of the art.  The cover art was my favorite.  The style overall is very surreal and weird- right up my alley.