All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir

All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir by Michael Kupperman, 218 pages.
Michael Kupperman knew that his father had been famous, but his father never wanted to talk about it. Father Joel taught philosophy at the University of Connecticut and had built their family home off in the woods. Michael grew up feeling isolated and alone. In the years before his father's death, as dementia began to set in, Michael tries to talk to his father and find out what it was about his childhood and teen years, time he had spent as one of the most famous kids in America, that had affected him so strongly. Michael finds that his father has blocked out large portions of his time as a radio and TV star on "Quiz Kids." Joel would grow uncomfortable when TV or radio were even mentioned and would leave the room if anyone brought up the show he was on or his famous past. The art is spare but very effective, and moves the story along well.

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse  248 pp.

I adore Wodehouse's Jeeves stories. This, however, is not a Jeeves story and, unfortunately, falls a bit flat. When Reginald Swithin the Third Earl of Havershot and popular child movie star named Joey Cooley have dental work done at the same time in adjoining offices they somehow swap their "souls" while under laughing gas. Each now inhabits the other's body which sets up the story for humorous antics. Wodehouse does include some laugh-out-loud dialogue but as a whole this is far from his best work.