Cookies and Herb

by Matt MacFarland

Matt MacFarland grew up in the Reagan years in small town California. The people who made up his life, like his elderly neighbor Herb, helped him feel understood in an indifferent, insecure world. With gentle humor and compassion, Cookies and Herb honors and memorializes those people who gave Matt support and care when he needed it most.

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Publication Date: September 5th, 2025
Book Size: 6 × 7.5 inches
Pages: 72
Format: Perfect bound softcover
ISBN: 978-1-956636-46-8

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Praise for Cookies and Herb:

"MacFarland tackles a universal experience not normally explored - our non-relative elders who raised us, who we “outgrew,” and to whom we mentally return years later - and creates a poignant comic that left me aching. Rendered in confident colored pencil, Cookies and Herb walks us into MacFarland’s past with clear eyes, drawing a portrait of growing up that’s free of toxic nostalgia and full of the anguish and uncertainty of being raised by flawed human beings."

— Mary Shyne, staff artist at Peanuts Studio and author of You and Me on Repeat