Eye of the Majestic Creature

Summary

Dry humor and psychedelia are grounded in realistic emotion in this quirky and surprising graphic novel debut following the adventures of a young woman named Larrybear and her best friend, a talking acoustic guitar named Marshmallow. Stein gives us the slackerly, star-eyed alternative to a cadre of ''misanthropic, self-pitying comics about unappreciated cartoonists,'' as Tom De Haven characterized it... But where the aforementioned Crumb-descended misanthropes have all more or less grown up, Stein''s Larrybear is a naïve woman on the verge of Whatever, a cute Candide floundering about in an increasingly complicated world. ...[T]his book [is] such a pleasure... -- Richard Gehr, The Comics Journal.