The latest from Audra Stang has arrived!  Valley Valley / Idella Dell is a 48 page flip/double comic book* that has been produced in a beautiful, hand-numbered risograph edition of 300 by Frog Farm, who did a fantastic job with this edition.  Printed in Hunter Green, Brown, Medium Blue, Bright Red, Aqua, Violet, Sunflower and Light Lime, the colors pop on each page.  

Made up entirely of one-page strips, each drawn in a three-tier grid of three to six panels, Valley Valley / Idella Dell is filled with angst and ennui, by turns ironic and sarcastic, wistful and self-abnegating. Further, as the protagonists, Valley and Idella, are comics-making cousins, each side is a kind of inverted mirror of the other, so a perfect use of the form. Nice!

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*For those unfamiliar with the form: basically, it’s two 24-page comics, each with their own cover, that meet in the middle; you just flip it over to read the other side.