RaveThe Wall Street JournalThis special community of midcentury print cartoonists, their lives and their contributions to American culture, get a witty, instructive and ultimately touching treatment in Cartoon County ... A particular joy is Cullen Murphy’s eye for detail. His elegant, immersive writing welcomes the reader into his father’s Cos Cob studio, a cluttered room like so many of his fellow cartoonists’ ... Fascinating, too, are the lessons in storytelling that the younger Murphy received directly from Hal Foster: how to build a narrative arc, the relationship between the pictures and words on the page, the power of the space between panels, the importance of character.
