{"product_id":"adult-contemporary-9781770461758","title":"Adult Contemporary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bendik Kaltenborn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of absurdist comics from a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e illustrator\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook through Bendik Kaltenborn's kaledescopic glasses and glimpse the world the way he sees it: a vibrantly colorful planet populated by lumpy, big-nosed people totally absorbed in their own off-kilter personal dramas. \u003ci\u003eAdult Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of odd imaginings, surrealist comics, and physical comedy gags from Kaltenborn, a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eillustrator.\u003cbr\u003ePeople scramble around in a world they don't understand, happy as can be. An author finds unexpected and lethal love in his own garden. A marriage is threatened by soup. Drunk old men quarrel about literature in the witching hour. A con details a small and silly bank robbery from the 1980s. CEOs do push-ups.\u003cbr\u003eKaltenborn's \u003ci\u003eAdult Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e reads as an homage to the art of mid-twentieth-century cartooning and absurdist sketch comedy. His characters pace about like Groucho Marx, do pratfalls like Dick Van Dyke, and mug like Jim Carrey. His virtuosic gift as an illustrator and designer shines through in these pages, indisputable in the multiplicity of styles he employs and in the immediate appeal of the book as a whole. From extended offbeat jokes about obnoxious businessmen to gorgeous full-page gag illustrations, \u003ci\u003eAdult Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e is always able to find something to laugh at.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45037385547927,"sku":"9781770461758","price":1925.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781770461758.webp?v=1769214777","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/adult-contemporary-9781770461758","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}