Acid Nun is a fearsome, full color graphic novel that collects all three issues of Corinne Halbert’s small run (self-published?) series in a larger hardcover format. Acid visions meet tarot card illustrations to illuminate a psychic journey involving a haunting internalized struggle between innocence and corruption, embodied by Annie the titular acid nun and the underworld pair of Eleanor and Bahomet. Sex & love, violence & hate, and acid & hallucinations combine in a heady psychedelic comics brew that will propel readers “through a journey of suffering and self-discovery.”
Includes pin-ups by Mike Centeno, Hyena Hell, Alex Graham, Matthew Allison, Haleigh Buck, Dead Meat Design, Katie Skelly… and Jim Rugg!
Here’s what a couple of her fellow comics creators have to say:
“A psychedelic hymn that cycles through desire, trauma, and rebirth in glorious color. Kneel at the altar of Acid Nun and experience a new comics visionary!” – Katie Skelly
“True modern myth-making, nor for the faint of heart and not for the heartless.” – Hyena Hell
ADULTS ONLY
The premiere issue of Viscere has arrived, and its theme is: Body Horror! Edited by Katie Skelly, who has penned an introduction in the course of which it is revealed that this anthology was born out of the isolation and fear brought on by the Pandemic, and the idea animating the works assembled here is that of confrontation with one's own – and others' – inescapable physicality. In the 120, magazine-size (8 1/2" x 11") pages of this first issue of Viscere , the group of talented women cartoonists who have herein banded together to provide readers with eight short comics works – in black & white, duo-tone and full color – and one essay (appropriately, on the Y2K comics of Junko Mizuno).
This a wide-ranging anthology, as stories and approaches span the spectrum from subtley psychological to over the top psychotic, each one presenting its own take on body horror, with no-holds-barred. And there is plenty of variety in art styles as well, as they range from anime-inflected cartoony to detailed old school illustration, each artist embodying a style that is distinctly their own.
Cover by Kate Lacour.
Editor Alexi Zeren states “Freak Buck is a prison for the monsters we build everyday, and the book covers are the cell walls.” This 256 page, (mostly) full color and black & white , 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" hard cover volume is crammed with comics of all sorts fro North and South America and Europe. Starting with a wraparound cover by Alexis Rose (who also contributes a ten-pager), then front and back endpapers by Igor Hofbauer, (who also contributes several comics pieces), title page by Victor Cayro, and an intro page by Josh Bayer, the book then proceeds to present the work of several dozen creators, first and foremost, Marti (RIP)! English language readers who have been hankering for more ever since reading Cabbie, can finally get a chance to read some new work – and its great! Then we have up and coming indy creators like Jasper Jubenvill and Corinne Halbert, along with plenty of creators whose work was previously unfmiliar to us here at Copacetic. Several of these works, it should be stated, are closer to illustration and/or conceptual art than comics, and some are a mix; and, of course, some are staight up comics.. This collection is all over the place! There is also a fairly lengthy, illustrated interview with Longmont Potion Castle. And, yes, there is some graphic sexual imagery (not all that much, but enough to warrant mentioning), and some in-your-face imagery, along with plenty of farout, freaky and hallucinatory imagery.
Recommended for Comics Explorers.
