Brian Chippendale co-founded the Fort Thunder living space/ art group and, with Brian Gibson, performs musically as Lightning Bolt. Dan Nadel interviewed Chippendale for The Comics Journal's Fort Thunder special (#256). In the course of the interview, Chippendale described Maggots, a book drawn on top of a Japanese catalog and distinct from his series of minicomics by the same name: "It's loosely about, I mean, none of them are specifically about anything. But it's a group of characters; it has something to do with them living in a placed called Fort Thunder. It has loosely to do... I haven't read that thing in three or four years because Tom fucking Devlin ran off with it! And I don't even have a copy; I don't even have photocopies of it. I had a bunch, but I left them all at Fort Thunder, and now they're gone. I think the main character is this guy named Hot Potato. It's something to do with... What is that thing about? It's just little subplots. There's a character of power who people are seeking. In other words I don't remember what the hell it is about. They eat peanut-butter people; they run around a lot; there is a bad guy who is a capitalist; it's like life: a lot of little tiny stories and finally something erupts that actually changes things."

Tom Devlin has since returned Chippendale's book, whose cover is depicted here (and does not represent the upcoming release's final cover design). The following preview reproduces pages twenty-one through twenty-eight of Brian Chippendale's Maggots. The book, roughly 340 pages long, is due from Highwater Books by the end of 2004.