![]() Like Stitches, there are aspects to Home After Dark which are solidly rooted in mid-century United States, but other aspects seem elemental to the feeling and experience of adolescence. At one point in our conversation Small cited European filmmakers like Bergman and Antonioni and others who arose in the postwar era as being influential to his thinking as an artist and never has that been more clear than in these pages, where readers are forced to consider for themselves what images mean, and where the story goes. For those of us who loved Stitches, Home After Dark feels familiar. ![]() ![]() An announcement was made shortly after Stitches was released that Small was working on another graphic novel, though that book and others were abandoned before he finally began working on Home After Dark, which is out now. ![]() The book was an international bestseller, and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. ![]() Features “I Don’t Mind Scaring Myself”: An Interview with David Smallĭavid Small had been a Caldecott-winning picture book artist and writer for many years when he made his first comic, the graphic memoir Stitches, which was published in 2009. ![]()
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