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, if that piques your interest, 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...)