I'm always looking around for interesting material, especially by creators I'm unfamiliar with, also pulling recommendations from others who share and/or talk about BD & general comics content. One such example would be Seth Hahne, a fellow reviewer and creator who also teaches university courses on comics. (see new link to his site on the sidebar there)

Now, actually tackling my 'incoming stack' can sometimes be a downright boring slog, or at other times, makes me feel as if I've stumbled in to a wonderland of fantastic new material. This was the case with a couple recent discoveries, such as Perdy right here, and Salt Magic, which I'm still reading.

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So far it looks like Image has translated two books, written and drawn by a pseudonymous Frenchman who styles himself "Kickliy Yilkcik." It's about a sex-lovin', bank robbing, ornery mama ("Perdy") who's just been released from prison, looking to get back with her former colleague and daughter "Rose," who wants nothing to do with her for a great many good reasons.

The sequence we're seeing here is actually a brief segue over to San Fran, CA from Rose's settlement in "Petiteville," in which one of three map-holding brothers is conducting business. Perdy has previously dealt with his brothers in rather merciless fashion, but it looks like he's going to be far more dangerous 'prey' than his kin. I'm sharing these pages because they're somewhat impressively atypical of the way Kickliy handles the rural depictions. What a great, talented comics artist to have never heard of. 😳😖

The tone in these books is immediately wild, hilarious and farcical, but then turns in rather soul-searching and excruciating ways, as the two leads have a mountain of unfinished business between them, and wind up drawing virtually everyone in town in to their conflict. And of course, there're heaps of violence and death, I suppose fitting this here gun-slingin' Wild West setting, directly reminding me of Mssr. Tarantino's characteristically breezy-brutal work.

More on Kickliy's other projects:
https://www.illustoria.com/blog/2018/2/17/creator-crush-kickliy