John Martz, an Ontario cartoonist, has drawn the entire student body of his mother's high school yearbook as cartoons, page to panel. The full version, which Martz debuted last summer at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, is browsable here, for sale here, and became a hot internet topic...

In his hatchet-whirling review of "quarterlife", Slate's television critic Troy Patterson has also showcased the series' sole brilliance: its nauseating realism. "Protagonist Dylan Krieger is the chief self-absorbee," as Patterson describes her:

"Why aren't you happy?" one of her friends asks in a lighter moment. Dylan responds in a...