It Will All Hurt

by Farel Dalrymple

Overview

A weird, sad, silly, sketchy, and dreamy watercolor fantasy action quest in which Alemendra Clementine and her crew of anti-social adventurers all come together on a psych-apocalyptic world to take down an evil wizard.

This Eisner Award-nominated webcomic began as a loose stream of consciousness exercise and exploration of the comic book medium and takes place in the same world as FAREL DALRYMPLE's The Wrenchies.

Collects all 6 chapters of the webcomic and the original 3 issues of the Studygroup/Press Gang/Alternative comic series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534306721
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	06/19/2018
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

About the Author

Farel Dalrymple is the creator Pop Gun War (Dark Horse Comics), which was a Xeric Grant recipient and won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators. Dalrymple drew the critically acclaimed superhero comic book Omega the Unknown (Marvel) for author Jonathan Lethem and is also creator of the Eisner-nominated It Will All Hurt (Study Group Comic Books). He is a cofounder of and regular contributor to the comic book anthology Meathaus and has worked on a range of illustration and cartooning projects.

Editorial Reviews

05/14/2018
In another dreamlike urban fantasy from Dalrymple (Pop Gun War), a little girl named Almendra is transported to the comic-book mash-up world of his graphic novel The Wrenchies—a shifting, post-apocalyptic landscape where space aliens and Mad Max–inspired sci-fi vehicles coexist with wizards, ancient temples, and talking animals. She joins a group of other otherworldly lost children, such as the young warrior Leon Fireglove and the petite, mechanical Robot Tod, who gather for a Wizard of Oz–like quest to vanquish the sinister “red wizard,” who periodically pops up to torment them. Originally begun as a stream-of-consciousness webcomic and drawing exercise, the graphic novel develops a loose narrative but shows its informal roots as characters and plot points drift in from the ether and as interstitial sketches and marginal doodles break up the story line. The reader will be sustained, however, by Dalrymple’s hypnotic art; his delicate watercolor-and-ink drawings, showing a strong Moebius influence, vibrate with life and imaginative detail. Recurring visual elements—flies, crows, cats—give the comic thematic unity even as the story fragments. If the children’s quest isn’t always clearly defined, it’s still a beautiful trip to take. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"Even though he has a shelf of awards by now, Dalrymple still seems to me to be under-read and low-profile in the medium. He's one of those creators that people should be talking about every day." -Warren Ellis



“Genuinely affecting, while seeming completely natural...brings to life a subtle kind of cartoon surrealism.” -Publishers Weekly



“Dalrymple's art is impeccable... It's beautiful, dreamy and nightmarishly violent... Not for the faint of heart, but what a ride for those who go with the flow.” ―Kirkus Reviews

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