Book Review: Inklings by Jeffrey Koterba

Title	Inklings
Author	Jeffrey Koterba
Rating
Tags	non-fiction, memoirs, autobiography, political cartoons, tourette's syndrome
	Jeffery Koterba is an award-winning political cartoonist. This memoir covers his childhood and some years after. It was a painful childhood. His father was a hoarder who gathered junk to sell and supplement the family income, mostly TV sets that he could repair and sell. Their house slowly became completely covered in junk. The father also had difficult moods, and it wasn't until he was an adult that Jeffrey realized both he and his father's odd twitches were symptoms of Tourette's Syndrome. Early on Jeffrey escaped into drawings, and he was a hard worker who, with agonizing slowness, worked his way up to syndication of his political cartoons in many newspapers On the way he himself married and fathered a son and became a member of a band. Koterba writes well and his memoirs are interesting. He once again shows that creativity and genius are often allied with disorders like Tourette's or autism. It seems that too often genius must pay a price. Good book. Recommended. Disclaimer: I received my copy of this book for free in return for a review through the Amazon Vine program.
Publication	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2009), Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date	2009
ISBN	0151014922 / 9780151014927

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