Merriment
by Joe Steinhardt Author and Marissa Paternoster Author
As many of us do, Mack is having a hard time coping with life in New Jersey. Watching her friends figure their lives out while she is stuck living at home, Mack is looking for any kind of lifeline out of her Mom’s house and into the City where she is convinced she will be happy. Then again, it's hard for anyone to be happy these days, a fact her mother will not let her forget. And what's worse: she thinks she might have committed a murder. And that maybe, just maybe, the FBI is spying on her?
Merriment follows Mack on her quest for happiness and/or sanity, through the horrors of life, as she navigates existential dread, real life dread, and all the dread in between.
by Joe Steinhardt Author and Marissa Paternoster Author
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Comments & Reviews
“Merriment is an excruciatingly restrained opera about mental illness, bridge and tunnel, and hoping to glitch oneself out of oneself, which is of course, not possible. A beautiful comics novel, powerfully evocative of a very specific experience of quarter-life depression."
"Merriment is a tale of friendship, paranoia, and the meaninglessness of life, through the lens of a group of cynical thirtysomethings. The dialogue is very real, hilarious at times. The artwork is both unsettling and beautiful, like a ghost story without any ghosts. Joe and Marissa have created a book that sticks with you for a long time after reading it."
“New Jersey and mental illness go hand in hand, and this beautifully rendered art masterfully explores the relationship between the two.”
“Merriment does a great job depicting the way we communicate our most fundamental thoughts, the things that make us speak and act the way we do, our petty grievances, relationships with friends and family, cultural annoyances and ultimately the way we resolve the unrelenting tension that threads through every day.”