Sequential Drawings

If Plotto is the over-the-top, maximalist solution to building a story, McGuire's Sequential Drawings is the minimalist alternative. Working in the vestigal, forgotten space of spot illustrations (those little filler squiggles that even regular readers hardly notice) in the New Yorker, McGuire (author of the equally conceptually thrilling graphic novel Home) hid tiny little stories in plain sight, each made of just a handful of simple pen-and-ink gestures. A flamingo plays with an umbrella, a spider tries to catch a fly. The bare simplicity of the stories makes them feel like they contain worlds.