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Two very different short story collections have been released by Fantagraphics recently. The Squirrel Mother is the second collection of short strips by Megan Kelso, which mixes autobiographical ruminations with ponderings over the myth and meaning of being an American. Her drawing style is sparing and lightly touched, while her stories capture the highs and lows of growing up in America.

Scrublands is South African cartoonist Joe Daly's debut on the international comics scene, and features short strips of an almost hallucinogenic nature, deeply reminiscent of the work of underground artists like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton.

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