Aesthetics collects illustrations, comics, doodles and ephemera from Ivan Brunetti's long career. Brunetti's captions are unfailingly pessimistic and self-deprecating but his work has a lightness that keeps it above a Chris Ware level of depression. This is a fairly slight book, but the photos of Brunetti's sculptures and vintage art collections as well as the curated drawings definitely deepened my understanding of his work.