Inklings

From the Publisher

An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his success back to his chaotic boyhood home and his complicated father, who, like the author, suffers from Tourette's syndrome, in book with 30 drawings by the author.

Review

Tina Jordan - Entertainment Weekly
"Just when I think I've hit memoir overload and can't take another, along comes a gripping one like INKLINGS....A powerful and moving portrait of an artist."

More about the book

Political cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba grew up as an awkward twitchy child, his body bursting with the same unsettling nervous tics as his father--a talented musician whose dreams of fame had faded leaving him an eccentric alcoholic who obsessively fills the house with broken electronics. To escape the instability of his home, Jeff fled to the Sunday comics, copying the strips he loved, and making his own. After his rebellious teenage years, this love of drawing would become his livelihood and salvation, as he struggled with his troubled family life and his long-undiagnosed Tourette's syndrome. INKLINGS is a pitch-perfect memoir filled with a self-deprecating humor and a complete absence of sentimentality. The prose is pithy vivid and as full of feeling and nuance as the author's art.