Here's a volume that's not for the faint of heart.  In these 88, oversize, A4 pages, J. Webster Sharp applies her dazzling stippling technique to translating the psychological underpinnings of the mental health issues that occupied Edwardian era egalitarian, George Ives, driving his assembling of a massive hoard of newspaper clippings that he collected into a lengthy series of scrapbooks over a period of 50 years (think Henry Darger as a scrapper).  Hallucinogenic is the word that first comes to mind while scanning these images.  Also, disturbing. 

At the conclusion of the volume, hand written transciptions of some of the newspaper clippings that inspired the comics are appended.

Anyone interested in some background on the creation of this work is encouraged to tune in to this 45-minute interview with J. Webster Sharp hosted by publisher Avery Hill.

Review Quotes:
"There's no one else making comics the way she is, and there's no mistaking one of her comics for somebody else's. Her concerns, fixations and flights of fancy are more or less entirely her own, and her means of communicating them are likewise utterly unique." -- Ryan Carey, The Comics Journal

"Confronting taboos with surgical skill, an anatomist's understanding and a detective's passion, the auteur has crafted here an emotional experience both enticingly lovely and yet intrinsically profane." -- Now Read This

"It has detail, it has passion and courage and guts, and wit and intelligence. It's daring and takes risk in both subject matter and execution. It also makes you unnerved, uncomfortable, intrigued, repulsed, excited. It's singular and unique." -- Paul Ashley Brown, Comic Bits Online

J. Webster Sharp began her professional art career as a portrait painter, and she also explored textile sculpture, collage and drawing. Having always been a lover of comics she committed herself to a career in sequential art in May 2021. She's inspired by the strange, eccentric and the psychology behind unusual imagery.