Kayla E. has mastered the Chris Ware toolkit to build a new and different kind of comic book, “tell(ing) the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest” by employing "a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles.”

“While the work is concerned with violence and fanaticism, it is presented in a playful visual language with a deadpan humor … Precious Rubbish asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the challenge of trauma recollection." (sez Fanta)

Get a good idea of what’s in store by checking out the author’s page for the book, HERE.

And John Kelly's interview with Kayla on TCJ.com covers a lot of ground, HERE.

And, if you'd like to keep digging, there’s plenty more to read about it as Precious Rubbish has been getting a lot of love from the critical community:

Some of this material previously appeared in NOW (we think...)