Staff Picks: Bikes, Bogs, Bolshies

From You & a Bike & a Road.

I’m kind of in awe of Eleanor Davis’s drawings. Her color work creates whole new worlds, but her black-and-white art is really eye-popping. In a comic last year, she made a remarkable drawing of two intertwined figures that breeds Japanese  with Aubrey Beardsley’s switchblade Art Nouveau. In her new book, , she leaves many of the drawings uninked. The comic logs her solo trip, by bike, from Phoenix to Athens, Georgia, over the course of fifty-eight days; the