A review by redeyedandhungry
Beverly by Nick Drnaso

3.0

Renews my hope in the future of the graphic novel. Drnaso is a fine storyteller, building out a collection of six tales that all figure together into a slice of Americana that serves as a greater canvas for a statement on the melancholy and occasional absurdity of existence in the 21st century. It is a bleak and bold work, one which draws ample depths from its simple aesthetics and allows itself to become one of the best examples of storytelling in graphic novels by refusing to experiment at all. In simple gestures and subtle stories, it endears itself to the likes of Raymond Carver and John Cheever while never attending to solely be those influences, instead becoming a more precisely '21st century work' and applying itself thoroughly to the common subject of the modern malaise with exceedingly fascinating results.