World Within the World: Collected Minicomix & Short Works 2010-2022

Collecting over 30 rare works of short fiction tinged with horror and eroticism by one of comics' most distinct voices, spanning over 20,000 years from the Stone Age to the apocalypse.

Publisher Marketing: Lovers of the macabre will savor this cabinet of curiosities.-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review" Review Quotes : It's a delight to explore the fascinating dark corners she's mined in the past decade plus, her own bizarre world within our world.-- "Cinema Sentries" Review Quotes : Running throughout [this book] are recurring ideas about violence and eroticism, set atop a deep respect for -- or perhaps curiosity with -- the ineffable nature of existence and life.-- "Comics Beat" Review Quotes : Gfrörer's stories would be unbearable if they weren't so funny, and she salts this collection with the occasional page of, say, drawings of Ryan Gosling, or an aside between evil spirits wondering idly how humans even manage to stick to the furniture.-- "The New York Times" Review Quotes : Gfrörer's stories feature a mix of elusive reality and foreboding moods, all suggesting something we can't totally conceive and yet understand emotionally.-- "Comics Beat" Review Quotes : Julia Gfrörer creates comics about tough situations in dark times.-- "Flood Magazine" Review Quotes : The 39 pieces collected here reveal a propulsive curiosity that sends Gfrörer across time periods, locations, and a wide range of human experiences.--Oliver Sava "The AV Club" Brief Description : "Collecting over 30 rare works of short fiction tinged with horror and eroticism by one of comics most distinct voices, spanning over 20,000 years from the Stone Age to the apocalypse."-- Review Quotes : To read Julia Gfrörer's comics is to feel her carving profane things on the inside of your skull... Her drawings manage to crawl under my skin and transport me to dark places I would rather not visit, but seem unable to leave.-- "Solrad" Review Quotes : Taking the title from the dense single page opening strip explaining how there are multiple worlds within worlds, this exhaustive anthology combines the work that preceded Julia Gfrörer's graphic novels alongside strips later published between them. As a unique creator with an extremely individual viewpoint and multiple interests, her shorter material ought to be as fascinating as her longer strips, and so it proves.-- "Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide" Review Quotes : It really varies in here for these particular stories that are trying to teach you some lessons and also some of them are just [Gröfer] having fun. I like anthologies like this.-- "Near Mint Condition" Publisher Marketing :

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 336 | Publication Date: 2025-02-25