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What is the In the Floyd Archives ? In the Floyd Archives is a graphic novel, drawn and written by Sarah Boxer, lightly based on Freud’s famous case histories – the Wolf Man, the Rat Man, Dora and Little Hans. The psychoanalyst, Dr. Floyd, is a bird.His patients are troubled mammals: Wolfman is a passiveaggressive wolf with identity issues, Rat Ma’am, an obsessivecompulsive rat, Lambskin a deflated lamb, and Bunnyman a paranoid rabbit. In the Floyd Archives, a comic with footnotes leading back to the Freudian sources, is for ficionados of Freud but also for those who love a wildly inventive comic with a deep and disturbing undercurrent.
What is Mother May I? Mother May I? is the sequel to the comic In the Floyd Archives. In this hilarious and terrifying riff on the works and lives of the child psychoanalysts Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, Dr. Floyd’s abandoned patients take a turn with Melanin Klein, a small black sheep who adores talking about tatas and widdlers. Klein is joined by her three little kids – Melittle Klein, a bitter kitten, Little Hans, a rambunctious bunny, and Squiggle Piggle, a pig whose tail creates expressive pictures when pulled. Mother May I? , a comic with footnotes, is for those who wonder whatever happened to psychoanalysis after Freud was gone, for those still working out things with their mothers, and for those who appreciate a comic romp with a dark edge.
Who is Sarah Boxer? Sarah Boxer , writer, cartoonist, critic, is a contributing writer for The tlantic , and a critic who writes for T he New York Review of Books, The L.A. Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Comics Journal, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Photograph, and Artforum . She published her first cartoon in a local Colorado newspaper at age 12. For many years she worked at The New York Times as an editor, critic, and reporter. Boxer’s essay on George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, “The Cat in the Hat,” was featured in Best American Comics Criticism . Her essay “Why Are
All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?” was anthologized in Rereading America. Her piece “The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy,” will appear this year in The Peanuts Papers. Born in Denver, Boxer lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, son, and two cats. There she is at work on a series of tragiccomics, including, Hamlet: Prince of Pigs (part of which appeared on the NYR Daily website) and Anchovius Caesar: The Decomposition of a Romaine Salad.