McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a collection of works by comic-strip artists and graphic novelists.

The format allows them the freedom to explore different avenues artistically. The result is a exercise in exploration of the genre, breaking new ground and expanding the boundaries of art. Not mention that it is side splitting funny, it will leave you in stitches from the beginning jacket of the book to last page.

Kate Isenberg recently wrote, "The determinism of the frame is most clearly represented in Richard McGuire's "CTRL," in which each panel shows a scene from above: a divine perspective. The tension lies in the graphic relationship between the rectangular frame and the story line; a man rakes leaves in his rectangular yard, sweeps a rectangular pile of crumbs from his breakfast toast, works in a cubicle with a rectangular aquarium, dies in a collision of rectangular cars, and is buried in a rectangular plot of dirt, among countless similar plots.

McGuire seems to suggest that comics mete out life the way modernity does, allowing inhabitants a limited range of motion from controlled space to controlled space."