What Am I Doing Here?

"What Am I Doing Here?" is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics.
In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator drawing advertisements and cartoons for "Life," "Time," "Esquire," "Newsweek," and many other publications Abner Dean invented a [...]
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"What Am I Doing Here?" is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics.
In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator drawing advertisements and cartoons for "Life," "Time," "Esquire," "Newsweek," and many other publications Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them to a deeper, stranger purpose. With an inimitable mixture of wit, earnestness, and enigmatic surrealism, Dean uses this most ephemeral of forms to explore the deepest mysteries of human existence.
"What Am I Doing Here?," Dean s second book and perhaps his best, depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which everyone is naked but acts like they re clothed a world of club-wielding commuters and byzantine inventions, secret fears and perverse satisfactions. Through it all strolls (or crawls, or floats, or stumbles) Dean s unclad Everyman, searching for love, happiness, and the answers to life s biggest questions."