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courtesy Drawn & Quarterly
The graphic novel
Map of my Heart begins with a cartoon map of Hoffman Estates: the high school, the Barrington Square Mall, a good spot to pick raspberries behind the hospital. At the bottom, everything is labeled: "Map of the Known Universe Circa 1982."
The cartographer is comics artist John Porcellino. For the last three decades, he's self-published his influential autobiographical zine,
King-Cat Comics and Stories (last month he released
King-Cat #80.) On February 9, comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly reissued three Porcellino titles:
Perfect Example, a coming-of-age memoir set the summer after high school, and
King-Cat Classix and