AdHouse Books Announces, Releases Details On Early 2014 Release: Katie Skelly’s Operation Margarine



By Tom Spurgeon

The Richmond, Virginia-based publishing house AdHouse Books has announced Operation Margarine by Katie Skelly as a release for April 2014. The book should debut at that year's MoCCA Festival, or a similar arts-focused comics show. This is the follow-up to the Nurse Nurse collection published by Sparkplug Comic Books in 2012 to fulfill one of the final publishing contracts negotiated by the late Dylan Williams.

"I'm very excited to work with AdHouse as I've always admired their beautiful books and eclectic eye for comics work," Skelly told CR.

The initial ad copy for Operation Margarine indicates a different direction from the well-received science fiction of Nurse Nurse: "Trouble tuff girl Bon-Bon and rich girl runaway Margarine make a motorcycle escape from the mean streets of the city to the desolate roads of the desert, holding their own against the elements, biker gangs, and each other." The Operation Margarine book will be 104 pages and cut to roughly the same size as the Sparkplug collection. It will list at $9.95.

Of Skelly's work in Nurse Nurse, critic Rob Clough wrote in June 2012, "Skelly's use of gesture and body language drives each panel, with character poses that almost look cinematic in their dramatic nature. The overall effect is a breezy, lighthearted, relentlessly strange and amusing narrative that must be accepted by the reader on its own terms."

Katie Skelly is based in New York City. A contributor to the Thickness anthology co-edited by Ryan Sands and Michael DeForge, Skelly has self-published two mini-comics versions of installments of the Operation Margarine story, with more to come. The book will be reworked to some degree from its publication in mini-comics form.


 
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