Elsewhere #1

by Gary Sullivan

"The Japanese Notebook."

comic book

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Gary Sullivan is a poet and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, NY.

Reviews

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elsewhere #1 picks up where Swoon left off as Sullivan charts the happy welter of visual information—billboards and children's comics, shop windows and commercial Japanglish—that caught his eye on his honeymoon with poet Nada Gordon in Japan. Much as I like how the idea of Elsewhere has expanded as the series grows, it’s in this first installment that Sullivan’s eye for the absurd and provocatively disjunctive joins most forcefully with his ongoing interest in the buzz of discovery and self-estrangement involved in exploring other cultures.