Pick up this comfortably sized collection of comic strips to take a walk down Smith Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota where you'll find the small world of Big Time Animation Studio. You'll encounter an intelligent, witty world of dilligent worker-artist pigs, dreamer artiste cats, grumpily practical business owning ducks, a jazz-playing frog and various dark phantoms. They all seek escape from the dull darkness of repetition through their art, love, and general orneriness. Serious, silly, and existential (whatever that means ), this just might be the thing you're looking for. Ok, it probably will be. No, wait, it is