Forget not yet the gret aſſays the cruell wrong the ſkornfull ways the paynfull pacyence in denays […]

Explicit Instructions for taking the dog through kindergarten and finishing school of trickdom.

In her slim and jaunty new graphic novella, “These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves,” the cartoonist Emily Flake riffs on her perverse, self-destructive habit for an audience of willful creative types like herself who know cigarettes are bad for them but can’t bear to join the ranks of safe, tedious noninhalers.

Many a glass of wine have we all of us drank, I have very little doubt, hob-and-nobbing with the hospitable giver, and wondering how the deuce he paid for it.]