Cecil and Jordan in New York

Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This collection represents her short comics work that has been published in various anthologies over the past five years, including Kramer’s Ergot, Mome, and The Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Four. The surrealist title story, in which a young woman turns herself into a chair so as not to be too much of a bother to those around her, was adapted into a short film, Interior Design, by director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep) as part of the Tôkyô! trilogy, released in 2008.

Praise

“With a selective eye for detail and a knack for capturing tart dialogue, Bell squeezes joy from an underemployed and underrealized 20-something existence.”—The Washington Post

About the Author(s)

Gabrielle Bell

Gabrielle Bell is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist whose work includes the graphic novel Lucky. She has also been published in the anthologies Kramer’s Ergot, Mome, and The Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Four.