@ Indie Pulp-- a review of The Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights

Over at Indie Pulp, I wrote a few words about Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights...
Of course, it’s easy for the threats to seem more real when Jill Thompson is painting them. More and more, I become convinced that Thompson can draw and paint everything. Her animals are so full of life and character in this book. The greatest compliment to pay her I think is to simply say that I could see any of my own dogs being characters in this book. Between the five main dogs and one cat, she captures just the individual personalities that dogs can have. Without over-exaggerating or becoming too cartoony, her dogs are real dogs. She knows how to show us the different breeds, their expressions and even their mannerisms perfectly on the page. Similarly to Grant Morrison’s WE3, which also featured a team of animals drawn by Frank Quitely, Evan Dorkin’s Beasts of Burden stories comes together so well because the artist knows how to draw animals and make them look like real animals, not some overly cartoonish simplification of what they think a dog or a cat should look like.