RaveBoingBoingCarnet features full-page, beautifully-detailed drawings, cartoony caricatures, instructions on how to make cheesy French sandwiches and standard, panel-bound comic book pages. In its visual eclecticism Carnet feels like a sketchbook, until you realize how well the pages \'work.\' While he jumps around in style, each page is laid out to both read in a glance and hold up to longer inspection. A sketchbook would have mistakes, scribbles and marginalia. Carnet is composed and beautiful. It’s a travel diary made by a master cartoonist ... Often I just want to piggyback on someone else’s adventure—someone not too different from me, on an adventure I might still have one day. It’s fun to imagine falling in love with beautiful strangers in other countries and inspiring to think that I might come out of it with a book like this. For me, that’s Carnet de Voyage. Inspiring, escapist, and achievable.
