The Old Man’s Illustrated Library appropriates elements from Classics Illustrated in a series of vignettes depicting elderly male authors alone in their apartments. This piece is “Issues #36 and #5: Typee & Moby Dick.”
Johnny Damm lives in Athens, Georgia, where he is a doctoral candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Georgia and an editor of A Bad Penny Review. His work has recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West, and Chicago Quarterly Review.