The Many Deaths Of Scott Koblish

"Death by steamroller. Death by healthy cereal. Death by falling manatee. Cartoonist Scott Koblish has compiled the cheeriest memento mori you’re likely to come across — a series of wordless, mostly one-page comic strips in which Koblish’s bespectacled cartoon avatar dies. And dies. And dies and dies and dies, through means both prosaic (grilling accident, heart attack) and surreal (alien invasion, malevolent teddy bear, the aforementioned manatee). It should be depressing, this parade of merciless mortality, but Koblish’s style is so charming, his command of body language and facial expression so sure, and his imagination so twisted (watch out for that orange tabby, Scott!) that this funny, breezy collection ends up being one of the year’s most bizarrely life-affirming reads."