(Pegacorn Press) Mike
Taylor’s beautifully disturbing comics are beautiful and disturbing. While his
collage/sketchbook/jam pages that are scattered in the book (and on the cover)
take the psychedelic chestnut of the Underground Comix era and add grit,
pathos, and humanity to that tradition of drugged-out doodles, it’s the
narratives that shine. It’s a discomforting pleasure to experience Taylor’s
off-center characters communicate in strange, offsetting ways that challenge
the concept of communication (his inky renderings perfectly matching their
splotchy inner-workings), and his reflections on art, industry, and selling out
make your brain twitch in the right ways.
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