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Persephone’s Garden is a deeply personal story and inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology.

A children’s song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother’s memories are lost.

“You are faced with the reality of quitting or doubling down. Guess which one this is.” - Zak Sally, Recidivist

A man searches for his lost teeth to complete his masterwork. Another embraces ghosts in an act of vengeance. Children escape from a ruined house to find a revelation. A wanderer leaves everything behind and discovers the infinite. Part resignation letter, part manifesto, the stories in Zak Sally’s Recidivist IV comprise a medium-defying visual experience of the freedom in obscurity.

Death stalks a quartet of girls – or is it the other way around?

A simple, elemental story of a group of adorable, little girls evading the specter of Death perfectly complements Gabriel Howell’s poetic diary/manifesto/wishlist. What looks like a Victorian children’s book complete with moral lessons, depicts an internal and external tug-of-war between vulnerability and intimacy, relatability and honesty, observation and isolation. The message remains raw and uncensored: don’t hide it in a book; forget about who is or isn’t watching; Forget Me Not.

You have reached the end of the Motel Universe.

The Skins, a slave race once hunted for their pelts, have turned the tables on their masters, the Jeffs, making for the hottest reality show in Depression Land. Meanwhile, the Skins’ home planet of Epidermis is ravaged by inflation, a Neuro drug epidemic, and an all-controlling hyperconglomerate, the Shackler Corporation. Sounds like another uprising may be in order!

Motel Universe 3 is the final volume of a trilogy of graphic novels from Joakim Drescher, an artist Print Magazine says is “is carving a place for himself in the image world.”