Navied Mahdavian’s “This Country” is a heartfelt new addition to the canon of graphic memoirs.
is a graphic memoir about their life — a documentary filmmaker and a teacher turned New Yorker cartoonist — in the middle of nowhere. Driven away from San Francisco by the ever-rising cost of living, artist and writer Navied Mahdavian and his wife buy six acres of land, 20 miles from town in rural Idaho, to build a home and start a family.
Less is more in “This Country,” which is rendered in deceptively simple ink wash. It displays the kind of minimalist cartooning that withholds details to provoke imagination. Stylistically inventive, it uses negative space to conjure a sky full of stars flanked by a canopy of cottonwood trees. Wind blows in single, loopy strokes, and evocative facial expressions are conjured with but a few lines.
I chuckled at a line in the acknowledgments section , in which Mahdavian thanks Sofia Warren, a fellow contributing cartoonist to the New Yorker, for being the only person to call him out on his pretentious flexing. Fortunately, his proclivity to “flex,” with facts about Ammonite fossils, bald eagles and Greek mythology, among other things, wonderfully intertwines with the story in most places.
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