The Year of Loving Dangerously Author:Ted Rall A breathtakingly honest memoir in graphic novel form serves as both an entertaining coming-of-age story about the intersection of sex and poverty, and a metaphor for economic insecurity. Within the space of a few months, the white, male, Ivy-educated future political cartoonist lost everything. If it can happen to him, he warns, it can happen to... more » you. "Year" is also a trip down memory lane, to the weird old New York of the 1980s: leg warmers, punk rock and power ties. Painstakingly researched and amazingly accurate, Callejo's artwork is a window back to that strange time. "Year" also serves as a breathtaking departure from the usual cartoonist autobiography about alienation and loneliness: faced with a terrible situation, Rall made the most of things--and won.« less