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'My Brain is Hanging Upside Down' by David Heatley; 'Capacity' by Theo Ellsworth

Cartoonist David Heatley is a completist. "Sex," "Race," "Mom," "Dad" and "Kin" title the five chapters of his graphic memoir, "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down," and the heart of chapter one is a 16-page, 700-plus-panel summary of almost every sexual encounter in Heatley's life to date, excluding his wife, Rebecca, whose pregnancy with their first child inspired the comic. Likewise, an even-longer "incomplete catalog of every black person I've ever known" (Heatley is white) dominates chapter two. Chapters three, four, and five dramatize his family tree from the Irish great-great-grandfather who helped carved the iconic lions outside the New York Public Library to the exact configurations of his father's dirty sock drawer and his mother's recipe for "struvella" ("1. Combine eggs, flour, sugar, oil and salt. 2. Deep fry…").