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Brian Ralphs adventure stories combine the hand-crafted charm of indie comics with the well-thought-out thrills of good pulp. The Onion Av Club

Brian Ralphs comics present more than meets the eye, but theyre eye candy, too, and work well as fantasy stories that cover a specific landscape over a period of time roughly equivalent to the experience of seeing how they unfold. I find them immensely pleasurable. Tom Spurgeon, the Comics Reporter

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ClaSSiC ZOMBiE GEnrE

You wake up in the rubble to see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, and offers you a place to sleep. Then he announces that hell take the first watch. Its not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector and is scratching at the door. What transpires is a moment-to-moment struggle for survival. Daybreak is seen through the eyes of a silent observer as he follows his protector and runs from the shadows of the imminent zombie threat. Ralph slowly builds the tension of the zombies on the periphery, letting the threatrather than the actual carnagebe the driving force. The post-apocalyptic backdrop features tangles of rocks, lumber, i-beams, and overturned cars that are characters in and of themselves.

Brian ralph was a founding member of the influential and now-disbanded art collective Fort Thunder. His first book, created while living at Fort Thunder and studying at the Rhode Island School of Design,

was the wordless masterpiece Cave-In, published by Highwater Books. Cave-Inintroduced Ralph as a premier cartoonist with a visual language all of his own, and was one of the first fully-realized long-form comics to debut out of Fort Thunder, symbolic of the collectives artistic melding of comic books, video games, television, and fine art.

$24.95 us + canComics & Graphic novelsisbn 978-1-77046-055-3

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