2 books
A Turkish writer and cartoonist born in 1952, Salih Memecan turns ordinary family habits and relationship friction into compact visual comedy. Oh No! It’s Him Again gathers the warmth and irritation of a family whose members are recognisable precisely because their small disagreements never stay small. Love Is a Doorknob approaches adult affection through similarly compressed jokes, using mismatched expectations between partners as the engine of each scene. Both books depend on timing: a facial expression, a pause or a final line often changes the meaning of the whole exchange. Memecan’s architectural training is less visible as subject matter than as economy and arrangement, with every figure and object serving the gag. Oh No! It’s Him Again foregrounds the family ensemble; Love Is a Doorknob narrows the frame to romantic misunderstanding, revealing two scales of the same observational humour.
