Ish is a magazine size, 56 page softcover collecting three longish stories in black and white and muted, flat color on nice off-white stock.  We've had it in the shop for awhile, and realized we should share it with our online customers, as it is filled with graphically inventive, experimental comics of the kind that you don't see every day.  De Souza has clearly spent some time studying early modernist painters – most notably, Picasso – and here he strives to adapt some of their then – and, for comics, still – novel approaches to visual representation of psychological states and philosophical perspectives into this work, making for a stimulating and challenging reading experience.  One that also serves to reveal a small patch of the untapped potential inherent in the comics medium, where the possibilities for combining image and text in the service of personal expression remain practically endless...