The Books

Nutmeg

by David Lucas

One Potato Review

Cardboard for breakfast, sawdust for dinner. Dickensian privations and a talking, manic spoon to finally stir things up. There’s not, admittedly, a whole lot more to the story than that, but Lucas’s dynamic illustrations – of Bleak House dismantled and reassembled into a conveyance employing waterwheels and fantastical propellers – make for reason enough to visit. With striking airborne colors, and flying spatulas and colanders and measuring cups, this artist has plenty of equipment at his disposal, even when he’s short on raw material.