Applicant

by Reklaw, Jesse

• ISBN13: 9780977055760
• ISBN10: 0977055760
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Microcosm Pub

Summary

A priceless time-bomb of pop culture, Reklaw serves a compelling and secret look into an impossibly lost era. The book collects photos from the 1970s paired with accompanying comments from employers and professors. The results are absurdist, confusing, often hilarious and disturbing. Applicant provides unique insight into outdated 1970s social attitudes and ephemera (under one girl's photo: "Weakness: she is a female, and an attractive, modest one, so is bound to marry"). Much of the book's appeal however is found in what the book fails to say: the blank and despondent stares of it's subjects, the outdated fashions and hairstyles and it's understated text. Equal parts Ann Taintor and Found Magazine, Applicant is one of those books you read once and then want to show everyone.

Author Biography

Jesse Reklaw is the author of the syndicated strip, "Slow Wave" and the comic journal Ten Thousand Things to Do. He is an instructor at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) Comics Program. He lives in Portland, Oregon.