<p><b>The <i>River at Night</i> cartoonist revisits his early-aughts breakthrough<br></b><br>In the two decades since <i>Curses </i>first hit the shelves, <i>River at Night</i> cartoonist Kevin Huizenga has taken his rightful place on a short A-list of comics experimentalists. Deep research and loopy cartooning serve up philosophical musings while maintaining a classic comic-strip devotion to ¿the gag.¿ Huizenga remains one of the funniest and smartest cartoonists working today, and now, the very book that heralded his arrival as a talent to watch is available once more in deluxe paperback as the early work of a now true genius.<br><br>The short stories collected herewith confront the textures of mortality in unique and peculiar ways. Central character Glenn Ganges is a seemingly middle-class, suburbanite whose blank-eyed wonderment at the everyday brings together diverse aspects of our world¿like golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees, and hallucina