The Portable February

Running the gamut in topic and style from faux-political to faux-"New Yorker," David Berman's lo-fi cartoons incorporate strains of high and low comedy, wistful Americana, contemporary art, dream visions, and a visual analog to the semipenetrable personal allusions found in his music and poetry. His drawings invite the same deeper thought as his writings, making use of wordplay, cultural references, and offbeat observations. The sparse illustrations are complemented by poignant one-liners, and reveal moments of lightness within the author's dark humor, providing a wry, erudite commentary on American culture.

David Berman has spent the last two decades in the public eye, stalking out his own territory as the leader of the rock band Silver Jews as well as poet and writer of one book of poems, Actual Air. Both his poems and his drawings have been featured in a variety of publications, including The Baffler, The Believer, The Minus Times and MoonLit. The Portable February is his first collection of drawings.