It’s All Going To End in 2012, Isn’t It?



In compiling a list of Fall releases, when it got to selecting something from PictureBox, Inc. I didn't even consider previewing Brian Chippendale's Maggots because I automatically figured there was no way this long-delayed book was ever going to come out. When Douglas Wolk put it on his list, I thought he was being funny or simply naive. Turns out I was wrong, and not only will this book come out this Fall, but PictureBox apparently had advance copies at TCAF.

I've only seen the multiple minis that came out of sections of this work, and I think either some of the original or high-end copies Tom Devlin had at one point, but I really liked what I saw. Because of the furious nature of Chippendale's image making wedded to a winding narrative approach which seemingly gives not a crap about the sequence of panels working left to right or up to down, Maggots was a much whispered-about book of the late 1990s, one of the easier Fort Thunders to grasp in terms of differences with traditional comics making, and one of the more difficult in terms of figuring out its worth. Having it out now won't have the impact of having it out back then, but this is good news.
 
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