My Dirty Dumb Eyes makes the Chicago Tribune Best of 2013 list!

Printers Row Journal contributors look back at the books they will remember well into 2014

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My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly, $22.95)

As at-capacity as my head feels, there are two books I probably won't shake after 2013 ends: The first is the remarkable collection "White Girls" by Hilton Als, who writes, in one of its many lovely, effortless essays, "This career — it is a handful of dust in the end."

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The other book I read in 2013 that I think about often is Lisa Hanawalt's quietly accomplished collection of illustrations, comics and doodles, My Dirty Dumb Eyes. Hanawalt, whose work often draws audible WTFs in the pages of The New York Times, Vanity Fair and Glamour, is an ace painter, an eerily adept caricaturist, but most of all, the kind of warm, compassionate absurdist that David Letterman was early in his career.

But then, sprinkled between images of Jeff Goldblum as a dinosaur and a Fashion Week report that is animals wearing hats, is some of the best movie criticism in years: hilarious, illustrated reports from screenings of War Horse, Drive and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Watching the latter, Hanawalt notes, "The boss character, Jacobs, just shouted 'I run a BUSINESS, not a petting zoo!' Hey Screenwriter, petting zoos are totally a business."

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