My Hot Date & Other Embarrassments Tsuchika Nishimura Sara Lautman is a cartoonist

Sara Lautman is a cartoonist and illustrator in Baltimore

The way aluminium confetti pours out of a letter onto a shag rug

and the ease with which vitriolic hatred can be spread digitally

” you can do anything

down to the old light fixtures of Chinese restaurants that have since been remodeled

My Hot Date & Other Embarrassments Tsuchika Nishimura Sara Lautman is a cartoonistBy Noah Van Sciver. Published by Kilgore Books. Softcover, 64 pages, B&W, 2015. Since it's initial publication in 2015, My Hot Date has becoming something of a modern classic. It's a coming of age story, told by one of this generation's best story tellers. This autobiographical story is set in Phoenix, AZ in the late 1990s. A young Noah Van Sciver is a poor skater kid, trying to figure out what it means to "become a man." He meets a young woman in an