Drawing on Yourself

Drawing on Yourself (2010)

A graphic novella about life in graduate school, hopelessly stupid love, bad poetry, worse tattoos, and Don Quixote. Contains two pages of jokes about Proust.

"This short story combines literature, cyberstalking, the strange liminal state of graduate school, tattoos, and road trips in a well-plotted 64 page package."-A.j. Michel

"There's something about Ursula Murray Husted's art that seems designed specifically to let your eyes wander. It could be the loose, rolling way she constructs landscapes and panel structure to make static images feel like they're constantly flowing--if there's any plain old ruler-straight line in her work, I have a hard time finding it. Her minimalist use of colors only highlights just how much observant detail is in her art, making it look busy and spontaneous without feeling cluttered or sloppy, and the whole style works well in concert with her low-key yet philosophically resonant slice-of-life stories. Locals should appreciate the askew angles and hidden elements she finds in the Uptown scenery of her recent work, "Drawing on Yourself."- Nate Patrin, CityPages