Fans of Bhanu Pratap's first North American collection, Dear Mother & Other Stories have been chafing at the bit awaiting more work from this unique and powerful comics maker, and now, at last it's time to release the inner reading beast so that it can gallop through 100 (mostly) full color pages of new work that fill this just released full size (9" x 11 1/2") hardcover from the Fantagraphics Underground imprint.
Cutting Season features 16 short stories that collectively showcase the singular style and vision of New Delhi cartoonist Bhanu Pratap. Seamlessly blending distortion, abstraction, romance, sex, body horror, isolation, violence, color, humor, and a seductive sense of design and composition (or, as the artist puts it, “love, gags, shit, holes, crashes, and bodies”), Cutting Season is an unnerving and sustained howl, in comics form, that demands attention like a raw, exposed nerve.