Hidden Islands by Cameron Arthur!
Very excited to see this release hit the shelves! Cameron has been sending me his comic zines for over a decade... SINCE HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL! Really incredible to see him develop this singular and stoic style, Hidden Islands is a beautiful collection of heavy hitting stories that no one else in this world could have made. his style is hard earned, from years and years of output, the coalescing of those who came before him, digested through space and time by the young artist. In this day and age it's easy to see young artists swipe a style from what's popular in the current moment. Open an app and do whatever is getting attention. That's fine! But it's rare as ALL HELL to see the toiling, the years and years of putting out zines in the down low, making something for ONES SELF AND THE CONFIDENCE TO SHARE THAT VISION.
A TRIUMPH OF THE FORM.
REFRESHING!
MEGA SHOUT OUT TO THE PUBLISHER BUBBLES!
164 Pages, Black and White offset printed
More info from the publisher Bubbles!: "Cameron Arthur (b. 1999) presents five short stories in his debut book. Born in South Texas his comics take to the sprawling environment around him. Arthur's comics demand to be read, brilliant storytelling and dialogue flow through his timeless genre tales. I'm beyond proud to put out one of the great young talents drawing comics today.
"These narratives often feel pervaded by a sense of preordainment that can at times border on fatalism, and the characters in these tales bear the marks of lives emotionally flattened by the pressures of existence, yet each of them remains propelled forward by their own deliberate internal rhythm that moves to the beat inscribed within their beings."
- From the Introduction by Bill Boichel"
