What Am I Doing Here?

“A real mind-bender.” —Scott McCloud“Mr. Dean is a great man. He has adapted a modern pictorial form to satire which has the flavor of Hogarth and Rabelais, the implications of Tibetan mysticism, and the hilarity of James Thurber.” —Saturday Review “Beautifully drawn, thought provoking works of art…For Dean, the combination of image and text could stimulate a wide range of intellectual and emotional responses: delight, frustration, provocation, bewilderment, sadness, or illumination. “ —The Comics Journal “Whether Dean’s conceptions are readily seized is a question for the individual, who should have a good time finding out.” —The New York Times“[Dean’s] best have a disturbingly haunting quality that one rarely finds in the more realistic captioned cartoons of the New Yorker school, and in fact are ‘funny’ only to the extent of making one giggle hysterically.” —Northrop Frye

Abner Dean (1910-1982) was born and lived in New York City. He spent his career working as a commercial illustrator and, starting with It’s a Long Way to Heaven in 1945, published seven collections of his cartooning work, including What Am I Doing Here?, Come As You Are, and Cave Drawings of the Future.

Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999) was a renowned essayist, critic, and anthologist, and was awarded the 1993 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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