TY  - BOOK
TI  - Seek you: a journey through American loneliness 
SN  - 9781524748067
AV  - PN6727.R334 S44 2021
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Loneliness
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Nonfiction comics
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into a piercing exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another. She looks at the very real current crisis of loneliness through the lenses of gender, violence, technology, and art. Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to Instagram to Harry Harlow's experiments in which infant monkeys were given inanimate surrogate mothers, Radtke uncovers all she can about how we engage with friends, family, and strangers alike, and what happens--to us and to them--when we disengage. With her distinctive, emotionally charged drawings and unflinchingly sharp prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully reframes some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments"--
ER  -