This year, instead of one 8 1/2” x 11” color magazine, Yearly takes the form of three separate pieces held together with a belly band, which is itself a modest work of comics: Drowned River is a 94 page, 6” x 9”, B & W, squarebound graphic novella that intermixes long stretches of purely visual comics, all arrayed in a gutterless, six-panel grid, to tell the story of a relationship struggling amidst a flood; a flood that is at once literal, figurative and symbolic, and that makes for an immersive reading experience.  (You can actually read it online, in its entirety, HERE).  Everything Is Always, is an 80-page, 4 1/2” x 6 1/2”, philosophical comics poem that, while reproduced in full color, is largely rendered entirely in black ink, white gouache and pencil on a series of brown surfaces – mostly corrugated cardboard, but also brown wrapping paper and uncorrugated board.  It too can be read in its entirety, HERE.  This Is an Empty Room is a 16-page, digest-seize, B & W pamphlet that imposes a six-panel grid filled with minimal drawings, text and symbols over a series of grey-screened, black & white photographs of a forest.  This combination could be read in a number ways: as someone sitting at home thinking, while remembering and/or reflecting on a recent walk through the woods; as someone walking through the woods, but distracted by thoughts and memories, or… as interchangeable quantum states, both at once!  Each copy of This Is an Empty Room also includes a small, one-of-a-kind original colored pencil drawing on the inside front cover!

Yearly was prepared to be released, as usual, for SPX, even in SPX's absence this year, making the event a spectral presence hovering over our reading of it. So, for anyone still feeling the lack of SPX, Yearly 2020 might help to fill that particular void...

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