The anecdotal quest of a post-modern hero in a land of snotty gods, mustached giants, and overly talkative fire. Reklaw uses unconventional layouts (including eight full-color paintings) and woozily lyrical narration to make this more than just another sword-and-sorcery parody — not that there’s anything wrong with those.

Book tours and backaches are a hassle; friends and cats are good. These may not be surprises, but when Jesse loosens up a bit and draws a diary comic, it’s all about the simple pleasure of a good scribbly line and the more complicated pleasure of anxiety channeled into graceful writing. These are the individual issues that were later collected in book form.

Note: There was an earlier edition of TTTtD #1 with a black cover, which was 24 pages shorter. If you bought that, let us know and we’ll send you a free supplement of the extra pages.

This flabbergasting bricklet of a book collects all six issues of the minicomic series documenting a year in the life of a nervous, social, and reasonably productive cat owner and cartoonist, with lots of ridiculously expressive tiny drawings, and guest pages by way too many people to list here. There’s a bonus 5-page epilogue about why it may or may not be useful to make little charts of your moods and what you’re drinking.