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“In the summer of 1935, something evil walked the fields of the Delta.”

faked by Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Bah on blurry phone pix—but this lets me show you the illustrations to the latest Sandusky Review. complete with the cover. One panel isn’t quite done and I covered up the last one so as to conceal the ending.


panels from the sandusky

I wanted this story to taste like old comic books found at a yard sale, Republic serials, pulp fiction of the grandest sort, and the kind of stories children here that give them nightmares for their whole lives, all with the blues playing in the background, desperate and scratchy. Let’s see if it worked.

Son House – Mississippi Country Farm Blues (from the already-legendary The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, from Yazoo Records.

Update: download it here.

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3 Responses to ““In the summer of 1935, something evil walked the fields of the Delta.””

  1. Pinky says:
    May 1, 2008, at 12:58 pm

    The River! The Phone! OMG WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE PUBLISHED??!

    I’m so in love already.

  2. Alex says:
    May 1, 2008, at 9:14 pm

    Wow! This is really beautiful work. It must be so fulfilling to see your ideas become reality, and see them take on deeper complexity while coming to fruition.

  3. brd says:
    May 2, 2008, at 4:50 am

    The image of the River is immediately breathtaking. Yet it does indeed work.