Eat More Comics (the comic with possibly the least appealing cover of all time) is subtitled "The Best Of The Nib!" As an anthology of a variety of comics that appeared in The Nib, my wish is that the book would have been shorter and called "The Best of the Best of the Nib." Because while there are some sublime works included, there is also some plebian dog crap. Usually, it's the political cartoons that are the festering blights corrupting the value of the book. And often, I even mostly agree with the thesis of these comics. They're just so dunder-headed and lack so much nuance that they can't come close to communicating anything worthwhile.

The essay comics and journalistic comics, however, are almost all fantastic. I'm glad I bought the book but I wish it could have had an editor with a wiser eye for value (or an editor with greater strength to follow their wise eye).

My favourites of the bunch (which you can read online for free) included:

• #lighten up
• False Idols: Boomer Icons and Their Crimes
• A Lost Possibility: Women on Miscarriage
• San Francisco's Class War by the Numbers
• Just a Word
• Hart Island Hallelujah
• Longstreet Farm
• Crossing the Line
• Impossible City
• Sex Positive
• Umbrella Blackout: China's War On Digital Activism

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