A man on a psychiatrist's couch, confessing his sins; lecherous men ogling a buxom server at a cocktail party; a man and a woman in tattered clothing, bickering on a deserted island the size of a living room. In his picture book for adults, Vancouver painter Neil Wedman reinvents these comic images in the wordless narrative, Burlescks: A Novel (Advance Editions $14.95). 1-55152-075-3

[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]