John Porcellino s visual style is iconographic but infused with the authentic feeling of a note written in love or friendship. Salon. Never before have so few lines conveyed such a wealth of meaning as in John Porcellino s quietly riveting book about memory, relationships, and selfhood. During a period of isolation following a divorce, Porcellino penned Map of My Heart, endowing it with the sensitivity and emotional depth so characteristic to his minimalist style. His tender drawings and spacious panels shape an autobiographical testimony where no moment is too small or insignificant for posterity. Pensive walks in the forest, encounters with rogue woodland creatures, school yard fights, Zen meditations, long lost crushes, and childhood exploits are the heart of this therapeutic account of the ever-fleeting present.

About the Author
John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. According to artist Chris Ware, John Porcellino's comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.

Reviews
[King-Cat Comics] swell with passion and heart. USA Today's Pop Candy. John translates authentic experience, stripped down to its bare bones, into rewarding comic vignettes on life and, of course, cats This is essential never-leave my-bag reading. Page 45. With a minimalistic style, in terms of his artwork and the dialogue and descriptions he crafts, Pocellino's work conveys the most essential information of a scene with a meditative beauty that is hard to find in comics. Comic Book Resources



Book Information
ISBN 9781770464698
Author John Porcellino
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly