Coping Skills #[nn]

John Cuneo's Coping Skills: Helpful Drawings presents itself with quiet, disarming wit — a deep blue cover framing an oval vignette of a rumpled, weary figure seated in a chair, pen in hand, looking like he's working something out one careful line at a time. The loose, expressive draftsmanship is entirely Cuneo's own, pencils and inks both, and there's something warmly self-aware about a cartoonist placing a drawing man at the center of a book subtitled "Helpful Drawings." This 2021 Fantagraphics collection wears its title with a knowing shrug that makes you want to open it immediately.