McPhail’s art is exceptional-realistic if impressionistic settings and anatomic figures with cartoonish accents like bug eyes and overemotive gestures. Eventually he learns to lean into awkward encounters and finally say something that matters to the other person-transcendent moments that McPhail brings to life by fantastically transporting Nick to vibrant, inspiring vistas for the duration of these fleeting epiphanies. This meet-cute leads to a fun, steamy, no-strings-attached affair, which weaves through Nick’s everyday struggles to form meaningful connections to his fellow humans-strangers, neighbors, and family alike. He’s heard of sad men being sad in sad bars, so he tries on the role for himself, but an attractive young woman named Wren playfully calls him out on his artifice. Professional illustrator Nick Moss isn’t sad but wants to be-at least for a night. Cartoonist McPhail’s debut graphic novel follows a youngish artist’s desperate search for authenticity in a culture where true selves hide behind performative, perfunctory interactions.
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