Infomaniacs - Matthew Thurber

Infomaniacs by Matthew Thurber / ISBN 9781939799081 / 192-page hardback, 8.25 x 10.25 inches, published in 2013 by Picturebox / a handful of copies of this out-of-print collection with only light age-and-storage wear *** "Thurber's graphic novel, Infomaniacs, is about the singularity and the end of the Internet; it's also the final book from the great comics publisher PictureBox, which serialized parts of Infomaniacs online starting in 2010."--Sam Frank, The Paris Review A delightful graphic novel about the tangled workings of the internet Infomaniacs is a graphic novel about the tangled workings of the internet--a hilarious detective story that manages to both cheekily critique and document the outer reaches of digital culture. Readers will recognize much of their own daily obsessions, tunnel vision and wacky e-antics in this work. Thurber looks in on "The Scriveners of Tweet Street," Albert Radar, a Joseph Beuys-lookalike psychiatrist, a perfectly preserved brain that has never seen