our wretched town hall (2018)

published by retrofit & big planet comics / 64 pages / full colour

recipient of the 2018 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant

nominated for the Doug Wright Spotlight Award

nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Graphic Novel

purchase: online / retrofit / amazon / through your local comic shop or book store

Town hall's in session, and we've got lots to talk about. Eric Kostiuk Williams returns with a new, full-color short story collection that will replenish your crops, singe your eyebrows, and lightly tickle the back of your knees.

PRAISE:

“Eric Kostiuk Williams’ comics are visually defined by their malleability. His forms shine like latex and stretch like taffy, and his stories take place in surreal, psychedelic environments that morph as time passes. That fluid visual aesthetic ties into major themes of his work like gender expression, queer culture, and urban preservation and development, all of which involve people and places in a constant state of change. His new book from Retrofit, Our Wretched Town Hall, collects a variety of his short comics and illustrations, spotlighting his signature style and his skill at telling stories full of emotion and atmosphere in a very short page count.”

• Oliver Sava for The AV Club

“Williams’ skillful, mind-expanding art is the perfect medium to let us gaze at our own demise, with wisdom and empathy. But in a refreshing right face from self-help platitudes, this comic of queer-loving and support resurrects the bite of David Wojnarowicz, inspiring readers with a fierce sense of humor and an activist rallying call.”

• Cathy Camper for Lambda Literary

“‘Dull’ is not a word in Eric Kostiuk Williams’ vocabulary, and that’s not just true on a surface level, its rejection on a conceptual level is at the very core of his overall artistic project.”

• Ryan C for Four Color Apocalypse

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