Mini-Comic, Litzine, Christopher Green, issue 1, wallofalloons.com
Alaskan comic artist Christopher Green comes from the same warped headspace as Dr. Seuss. This is what we’d get if The Lorax was a mini-comic full of slimy, tentacled creatures, pig-faced cows milked on back and belly and lanky, bare-spined giants holding up the sky. Polyhedron Burst pairs the cute and the grotesque in prints from ink and what looks to be watercolor, with humanoids and smiling otherworldly creatures cohabiting some bizarre, unsettling fantasy. Each of Green’s prints has its own short, mysterious story. Each could be its own world, or a piece of some bigger world yet to be knit together. Take the cave dwelling carpenter with rabbit ears and a chicken face, skewered by the straw of some massive platypus monster lurking beneath the cave waters: “My boat was stolen. I will not finish this cart on time. But I have peace for I am here. Here in my workshop, my temple, I feel God.” These surreal and sometimes too- brief narratives left me confused in some cases and wanting more in others. Either way, I’ll recommend this for the sake of the art; each tiny print had me staring and wondering at these adorable, gross and fascinating scenes long after I’d finished reading. (Joshua Barton)