Little Nothings, Vol. 2: The Prisoner Syndrome
By Lewis Trondheim
Trondheim describes the prisoner’s syndrome as
It’s when someone’s locked up and isn’t doing anything. By Not doing anything, he gets more and more tired and has less and less desire to do anything.
Fearing this phenomena, he decides to do more festivals around the world.
The Prisoner Syndrome is like A Moveable Feast. It is very stream of consciousness oriented and almost diary like. When Trondheim notices something about a place that interests him or has a clever idea, he jots a cartoon of it down.
As a result, there is no narrative here. It is like a hip version of Family Circus. There is an overall theme going on about his life, but there isn’t necessarily any causal connection between pages. The elapsed time and location vary wildly.
It is an amusing book. Probably best read like a joke book, a little at a time. It is funny in places and heart wrenching in others.
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