A little look-see

NPR is offering readers a sneak peek at Jules Feiffer's upcoming graphic novel Kill My Mother, due out next Tuesday. The story appears to be a play on classic Hollywood film noir, re-imagined via Feiffer's inimitable art style—all sketchy, wavy lines and smudged colors. (I spent my entire childhood assuming that Feiffer's only job, ever, was creating the illustrations for The Phantom Tollbooth, but he's actually an accomplished cartoonist, author, and playwright. And a teacher. Oh, and he won a Pulitzer Prize. So maybe The Phantom Tollbooth wasn't actually the end-all and be-all of his career.)