Printed Matter writes on Hooyman's WEB site: "A bearded mountain man is awoken by his cat and rises to greet the day by making a list of themes for mediation, from American faith to ZZ Top, to be considered in a textual and graphic stream of consciousness. In the serpentine unfolding of pages, a metaphysical atmosphere arises in with a mystical cast of characters. Thought bubbles snake from personified animals, spouting philosophical queries and statements like "If liberty means anything at all, it means the freedom to tell people what they don't want to hear." (G.O.)Energized lines activate the all-over compositions, which show moxie in their layered foreground and background elements that draw the viewer into a deliberation of cultural forces at play in America. Free-floating, wizzard-ish heads open this hilarious comic book with a circuitous discussion of the meaning of Time. Equally weighty topics concern the animals that populate the rest of the book. For example in "Chapter One: The Animals Speak Amongst Themselves," the bird asks, "Are numbers real?" and The Wise Dog answers, "They are useful but they are not real." Two giant creatures sitting cross-legged like two animate mountains in the sun ask each other, "Is there such a thing as too open minded?" "Too open minded for what?" Kevin Hooyman's intricate drawings of animals, people, plants and hybrid creatures come alive in his dense imaginary landscapes and in the abstract space of the page. Preternaturally curious (and articulate), everyone and everything contributes to the existential conversations swirling through the book in multi-layered word balloons." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.