I don’t mind saying that the production on this book is incredible, printed on high quality uncoated paper and boasting a wraparound cover with French flaps (pictured above). This is perhaps the wildest work to come from the prolific Bayer, and when he first contacted me about it, he said he specifically wanted it to be published by Church Ghost—probably because nobody else would be crazy enough to do it, let alone in an offset run of 1,000 copies produced in Europe.
Utzy, a young runaway and psychokinetic, and her faithful dog Dusty, inhabit a blackened exurban sprawl known as Suddentown—where the looming silhouettes of enemies and boogiemen is ever-present. Finding herself imprisoned in the adolescent wing of a strange “Trauma Recovery Center,” Utzy meets a gaggle of other endangered outcasts, who drink milk and vape between therapy sessions… and sometimes get slaughtered in the night.
Inspired equally by gory ‘80s slasher films and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie comic strip, this is Utzy and Dusty: Swan, Swan, Hummingbird… an intense new graphic novel by Josh Bayer.
An eight-page excerpt/preview:
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