Synopsis
Jonathan A. is a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic and, of course, entirely fictional novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life writer Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man and What's Not to Love? For the fictional Jonathan, writing and drinking come easy. The hard parts of life are love and hope. From a touching relationship between Jonathan and his aging great aunt, to an inebriated evening with an amorous, octogenarian dwarf, Ames's first original graphic novel, with gritty, poignant art by Dean Haspiel (THE QUITTER), tells a story about how our lives fall to pieces and the enduring human struggle to put things back together again.
Alcoholic? Really? That's strange, because most alcoholics I know die, or are a million times more depressive or destructive than this. This writer seems to be talking about someone (read: themselves?) who just over-does it all the time.
PLus, it's not terribly interesting as a story (not alcoholism genrally, I mean THIS story), and the art is barely good, being a very inappropriate style. Or at least that's how it felt. And felt is as good a way of describing it being wrong as any other. Your gut says it's too crisp, or too happy, the expressions seem constantly a little too straight, or over-done when expressing something more complex than the artist gets.
The cover has 'from the creator of the HBO series BORED TO DEATH'. Never saw it, that fact didn't make me read this, or think better of it. It appears to be the reason a barely decent graphic novel was created though.