Linework: These Are Things That Are True

By Kevin Budnik. Edited by Ivan Brunetti and Aaron Renier. (Click on image to enlarge.)

Fear on LSD: Based on a “Terrifying” True Story “Newcity,” I tell my wife as we turn northbound onto Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive, “is doing a special issue on fear.” “Oh,” she says, “that’s right up your dark alley. You’re afraid of everything.”
#MomToo: Trying to piece together how a mother's life was disrupted in the 1940s by "unwanted flirting" is like solving a true-crime mystery A gap in a resume supposedly tells a story. Employers’ imaginations fill in: got fired, didn’t get tenure, living off unemployment. The resume is helpless to explain: raising children, caring for parents, disability or illness, recession. But the real gap in Mom’s resume was not the twenty years of being Mom.