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This Country
Navied Mahdavian
"In Mahdavian's hands, comics feel like poetry. Perfect ink drawings bring land, beast, and humans, with all their delicacy and...
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Deep Care
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Ten Thousand Apologies
Adelle Stripe, Lias Saoudi
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The New Way Things Work
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Help in the Dark Season
Jacqueline Suskin
There are so many ways for us to access love; Help In The Dark Season maps this personal process, uncovering...
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I Have the Answer
Kelly Fordon
Short stories that manage to feel both fantastical and disturbingly familiar.
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Gruesome Gary's Home for the Dead: a Funeral Alternative
Gary Freeman
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