Tate McFadden reviews Joe Ollmann’s new short story collection from Drawn & Quarterly for The Comics Journal.
The stories in The Woodchipper are a mix of uproarious comedy, neurotic drama, and depression. Each story, with the exception of the last entry, follows the foibles of a mundane protagonist as they cope with an extraordinary inciting incident (a renter found shot at a bed and breakfast, a near-fatal miss with a woodchipper, etc.). Ollman cranks the anxieties, insecurities, and neuroses of his characters high enough to put you on edge, but never so high that he loses his stories’ verisimilitude.
Read the review here: https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-woodchipper/
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