I learned to improvise. You can’t plan, it seems. Every day is a different-sized panel.
While nostalgia can be a comforting preoccupation, critical engagement is required to truly make sense of the past. Mere reflection without active intervention enables selective forgetting and a romanticization of complicated circumstances. This self-deception diminishes the present moment and leaves one longing for days they can never return to—if they even existed.
In Frames: A Memoir, Jeff Newberry curates personal experiences to process living in an incomprehensible world. Fragments find meaning via juxtaposition, each page a scaffolding through which patterns emerge. Cultural touchstones from Peanuts to Hamlet intertwine with details of a dysfunctional childhood and efforts to right painful wrongs as a father and teacher today. With these raw materials, Newberry constructs a series of exhibits in book form; text boxes multiply and interact across layouts increasingly complex. As one wanders its corridors, Frames provides a look at the power of refinement in remembering our individual and shared histories.
46 pages, handmade and numbered • 2026
“Jeff Newberry’s intriguing memoir examines how frames—literal and figurative—shape the stories we tell ourselves and others. From the borders of memory to comic book panels, museum walls, and caskets, Frames: A Memoir illustrates the unique power of brevity, innovation, and design.”
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
I learned to improvise. You can’t plan, it seems. Every day is a different-sized panel.
While nostalgia can be a comforting preoccupation, critical engagement is required to truly make sense of the past. Mere reflection without active intervention enables selective forgetting and a romanticization of complicated circumstances. This self-deception diminishes the present moment and leaves one longing for days they can never return to—if they even existed.
In Frames: A Memoir, Jeff Newberry curates personal experiences to process living in an incomprehensible world. Fragments find meaning via juxtaposition, each page a scaffolding through which patterns emerge. Cultural touchstones from Peanuts to Hamlet intertwine with details of a dysfunctional childhood and efforts to right painful wrongs as a father and teacher today. With these raw materials, Newberry constructs a series of exhibits in book form; text boxes multiply and interact across layouts increasingly complex. As one wanders its corridors, Frames provides a look at the power of refinement in remembering our individual and shared histories.
46 pages, handmade and numbered • 2026
“Jeff Newberry’s intriguing memoir examines how frames—literal and figurative—shape the stories we tell ourselves and others. From the borders of memory to comic book panels, museum walls, and caskets, Frames: A Memoir illustrates the unique power of brevity, innovation, and design.”
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
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