A Single Match Siadora Dixon’s invented animals

Dixon’s invented animals

printed in blue ink

there’s real energy and ingenuity: this is a wise and funny journey through loneliness and confusion

he hangs out with April and her friends

all the way to the Peruvian cocoa plantations where another chef shows how one carefully chooses the beans

A Single Match Siadora Dixon’s invented animalsBy Oji Suzuki. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Hardcover, 240 pages, B&W, 2011 (originally published in the 1980s 1990s) A new author in D+Q's acclaimed gekiga line In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in