Five deeply personal cartoon essays collected together for the first time into one limited-edition hardcover volume.

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From Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, Mike Dawson, comes an all-new graphic novel collecting five of his most thoughtful and acclaimed long-form cartoon essays. With signature humor and emotional honesty, these thematically intertwined stories explore the ways we construct our self-identities through memory, history, music, and art. Whether reflecting on taking his son to see Back to the Future on the big screen, or wrestling with Scottish identity, or revisiting a much-maligned Queen album that became unexpectedly meaningful, Dawson takes the small and familiar moments in life, and transforms them into meditations on modern living, nostalgia, beauty, regret, and belonging.

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This collection includes the Eisner Award-nominated Life During Interesting Times, originally published at The Nib, now revised and reformatted for the page, a powerful examination of inherited fears, historical catastrophe, and the ongoing climate crisis. Together, these five essays demonstrate why Dawson has become one of comics’ most distinct autobiographical voices, combining wit, self-reflection, and formal innovation, to create essays that provoke and linger with readers long after the final page.

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Beautifully produced, this limited-edition volume will serve as an ideal introduction for new readers and a definitive collection for longtime fans.