The Portable February

The Portable February is a hardcover book of cartoons by Silver Jews frontman David Berman. The 90-plus doodles range from crushingly obvious (the protester holding a sign reading 'giants' enclosed by a circle with a line drawn through it, as a giant boot approaches from above) to gleefully inane sketches titled, perhaps, to impart meaning ('the world we had,' 'irrational 15th century battle scenes') to oblique cartoons that demand serious interpretive input from the reader. On Drag City.