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Fantastic Butterflies
By James Kochalka, 168 pages, $14..95.
ISBN: 1-891867-18-0; Diamond Code: STAR 16427
Tom Devlin (Highwater Books) provides the graphic design for
one of the finest new graphic novels this year. James
Kochalka has been called "one of the brightest lights of independent comics"
and Fantastic Butterflies is a shining example of his genius. Magic Boy wanders drunkenly through a hallucinogenic nightmare world of Cancer Robots, softball showdowns, dance parties, barbecues, time machines, testicular injury, and cake-baking kung-fu cuties! The graphic novel has twists and turns so bizarre you'll be shouting out "OH MY GOD!" and scaring your roommates. It also happens to be hilariously funny and infectious in its bubbly charm, combining autobiography with a kind of magic science-fiction. This is gonna be a big year for James Kochalka!
By James Kochalka,
B&W, color covers, square bound, 168 pages, $14.95
US. September 2002. ISBN 1-891867-18-0
Images, characters and likenesses © and TM James Kochalka