J&K Annick Press Set in Beirut

Set in Beirut

Vinnie Neuberg is an illustrator living in Brooklyn

For all of its surface splatter

No one gave her orders

it’s about these people and it’s like they’re sitting in a waiting room waiting for life to start and then the nurse comes out and says “life will see you now””

J&K Annick Press Set in BeirutBy John Pham. Published by Fantagraphics. Softcover, 160 pages, Colour, 2024 (originally published in Spanish in 2017, then English language hardcover in 2020) Now in paperback, this colorful graphic novel follows lovable losers Jay and Kay, whose quotidian adventures are often hilarious and occasionally poignant, calling to mind everything from Peanuts to the work of Simon Hanselmann. John Phams simple seeming stories of best friends Jay and Kay and