Wine Ghost Goes to Hell

by Sage Coffey

Overview

"Surreal and hilarious happenings in the Beetlejuician afterlife." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Deceptively emotional . . . a comic that you must read twice." — WOMEN WRITE ABOUT COMICS

When Wine Ghost was alive, she was a booze-soaked train wreck. Now that she's dead . . . well, to be honest, not a lot has changed. But when an old friend from her days among the living unexpectedly turns up in Hell, she's faced with a lot more responsibility—and self-reflection—than she's used to dealing with! Fortunately, if anyone knows how to handle life after death, it's Wine Ghost. She learned the ins and outs of Hell a long time ago, but it's her pal's first days down in The Depths. And boy howdy, are they both in for a wild ride!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781638991052
Publisher:	Iron Circus Comics
Publication date:	02/06/2024
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	6.19(w) x 8.57(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sage Coffey is a trans nonbinary cartoonist in Chicago who is best known for their work with The Nib, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Since 2016, Sage has edited Sweaty Palms Anthology: The Anthology About Anxiety and has contributed to many other comics anthologies including Be Gay, Do Comics and Comics for Choice! They love their old cats, watching wrestling, and drinking orange blossom tea.

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Sage Coffey is a trans nonbinary cartoonist in Chicago who is best known for their work with The Nib, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Since 2016, Sage has edited Sweaty Palms Anthology: The Anthology about Anxiety and has contributed to multiple award winning comic anthologies including Be Gay, Do Comics and Comics for Choice! They love their old cats, watching wrestling, and drinking orange blossom tea.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"I loved this surprisingly tender, extremely funny book. It explores the way disastrousness and pain can feed on each other and the vulnerability of internal chaos with extreme honesty and compassion." — Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home, Magic for Liars)

Editorial Reviews

08/28/2023

This spunky yet truncated graphic novel by Coffey (I Am Not a Wolf) reads as if Walter Scott’s Wendy died and went to an afterlife drawn up like Lisa Hanawalt’s Tuca & Bertie. Wine Ghost, a bed sheet with pink legs and high heels, drinks wine in a rent-free grave in hell and has “a depression that just won’t quit.” When Sebastian, a newly deceased friend, arrives at her doorstep in the form of an anthropomorphic green canine, he cajoles her into an apartment search in hell’s “inner circle” (“I wanna be where the action is!” he pleads). The task lightly parodies the soul-crushing drudgery of house-hunting as they tour rentals, including the ever-expanding void of a large hotel room and a “weird old sex palace.” A run-in at a bar with Wine Ghost’s crush, a cute fish girl named Pepper, sends the specter into a booze-induced spiral (and conflict with an oddly snappish Sebastian that’s awkwardly shoehorned into the script). Neon colors amplify surreal and hilarious happenings in the Beetlejuician afterlife even as dialogue flags occasionally into cliché. It’s an abbreviated peek into a promising conceit that will leave readers hoping for more in a sequel. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Surreal and hilarious happenings in the Beetlejuician afterlife." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Deceptively emotional . . . a comic that you must read twice." — WOMEN WRITE ABOUT COMICS
“Balances the silly with the serious to tell an unreal, too-real emotional tale."  — BITCHES ON COMICS

"This is Cathy for ironic millennials.”  — AiPT COMICS
"An incredibly deep and thoughtful narrative that tackles some big adult themes in under 100 pages." — NO FLYING, NO TIGHTS
"Balances humor and heart to tell a story that moves beyond punchlines." — BOOK CLUB CHICAGO

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