{"product_id":"9781770462564","title":"Spaniel Rage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“I love [Davis’s] free-form drawing . . . She just has a funny, truthful voice.” Audrey Niffenegger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa Davis’s autobiography, more observational than confessional, delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young single Jewish woman. \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with frank and immediate pencil-drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings between her and her mother, and conversations with friends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer keen observation of careless words spoken casually is refreshingly honest, yet never condemning. Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties and wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. These comics are sexy, funny, lonely, beautiful, spare, and very smartthe finest work from a natural storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Davis creates] structurally sound, stylistically individual images that also manage to seem totally casual and spur-of-the-moment. The cliché “she makes it look so easy” is acutely appropriate for Vanessa and her work.”\u003ci\u003eRookie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The frank, personal specificity of [\u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e] keeps you gripped.”\u003ci\u003eVulture, 8 Comics You Need To Read\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“...a warm, familiar voice … \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e holds an amazing freshness 12 years after it was published. It certainly deserves Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly’s February reissue.”\u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e collects] snapshots of her life that feel both utterly familiar and totally weird … a pleasant delve into young life in the city.”\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Often funny, often tinged with loss, Davis chronicles a life page by page [and] touches on the anxieties of the internet age.”\u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This work [has] the strange power of making me feel like Davis broke into my apartment and scribbled her life into my personal notebook, just for me.”\u003ci\u003eBroken Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An honest, unflinching set of loose cartoons… at its core, the commonalities of the cartoons in \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e reflect the quirks of daily life itself.”\u003ci\u003eBookriot, 5 Graphic Novels To Watch In For February\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you dig slice-of-life graphic novels, then you’ll want to pick up \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e from Vanessa Davis … the graphic-novel equivalent of a Seinfeld episode about twentysomethings.”\u003ci\u003eLondon Free Pres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061996404976,"sku":"9781770462564","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770462564_p0.jpg?v=1763706700","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770462564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}