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Incorruptible

Incorruptible by ZenNavigator Behind the Zine: After a year off, I recently got back into printmaking. It came about in a kind of circuitous manner. After moving back to Texas I started making postcard collages for fictional tourist traps and destinations in the Lone Star State . One thing led to another. This project led me to collaging in general, which led to me buying a bulk set of blank postcards (because I fell in love with the size and format). I made 100 postcards and decided to call my project finished (thinking about it day and night had started giving me migraines), but I still had a big stack of postcards left over. I decided it might be fun to some linocut designs and print them on the postcards, so I bought a bulk order of carving blocks. They sat untouched on the corner of my desk for a few weeks, not sure what to do with them. I have an issue where it's hard for me to work in the moment, creating singular anythings. I can't just write a story for the sake of wri
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Review: Cyclopedia Exotica

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Cyclopedia Exotica  by Aminder Dhaliwal Drawn & Quarterly (2021) I bought and read Aminder Dhaliwal’s Cyclopedia Exotica on New Year’s Day 2023. It had been on my radar for some time, so I was happy to pick it up, but I’d be lying if I said my expectations of the book were more than middling. I thought it would be nothing more than a collection of entertaining comics based around the premise of cyclopses being real. Let me say first that this book is much more than this reductive premise, and I absolutely love it. I assumed at first that the title was merely a cheeky play-on-words, but it actually points to the framework of this book, which presents as an encyclopedia on cyclopses in the fictional world in which they exist as a way to quickly bring the reader into this world. But the book keenly guesses that this is not the best way for it to tell its stories or explore its themes and pulls one of the greatest moves I’ve ever seen in comics, using a character discussed in the encyc
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