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Processing: Mattie Lubchansky Wrote and Illustrated Simplicity
The author and illustrator on utopian fiction, science fiction satire, and "skepticism for how things are done and how things can be different"
I talked a ton about it influencing Boys Weekend, where I really was trying to capture the feeling of “experiencing capitalism for the first time” with this fantasy version of Las Vegas—I wanted people who even like going to the real one to understand where I was coming from. Other stuff that was really top-of-mind to me while working on this were the Octavia E. Butler Earthseed books, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Alan Moore and Steve Bissette's Swamp Thing, Kelly Reichardt's First Cow, Sondheim's Into the Woods and Pacific Overtures(my favorite song from the latter gets an epigraph). Reviews have called the book “Brilliant” ( Esquire), “riveting” ( Publishers Weekly), “hilariously clever” ( Elle), “a total blast” ( Chicago Tribune), and “just plain wonderful” ( Booklist).
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