For those who have listened to Episode 13 of the podcast you will know I was raving about Becky Cloonan's 'The Mire', her self-published haunted fantasy comic. Well, in 2011 she self-published a precursor of sorts called 'Wolves'. Self-published comics are usually, almost by default, a labour of love. That's certainly the feeling that 'Wolves' exudes. The small, short, black and white comic just feels much more intimate than a big glossy 'professional' comic. I'll hopefully touch on this in more detail in a later blog or episode, but the feeling that a comic has been made just for you helps you connect with the art and narrative in a way that a blatantly mass produced piece of art never could. 'Wolves' is a short story, and reads like the literary expectation of that would; carefully building an atmosphere through a simple narrative, with a 'twist' ending that on second reading makes you feel foolish
Comics, graphic novels and sequential art.