KRACHMACHER

©2005 Jim Campbell

Krachmacher is a comic by a recent Xeric Foundation winner named Jim Campbell. His style is very reminiscent of the works of Tom Herpich's comics from Alternative "Cusp" and "Gongwanadan", but the storytelling is vastly different. In short, its great. The insides are much more visually appealling than the cover, but one thing the cover CAN boast is its actually the first panel of the comic. The story continues from that picture forward. A subtle innovation that really works.

Here's what the official site (linked above) has to say about the first issue:

"This, the first issue of Krachmacher contains three stories: The main story, At the Shore centers around Marianne, a teenager who finds herself involved in a seemingly mundane adventure that grows increasingly more bizarre as she and her friends become integral players in it. This quirky character drama introduces Marianne and her four friends. The other, more subtle, narrative arc of At the shore revolves around the surreal flashbacks Marianne suffers through—taking her back to memories of her family and her strange childhood. The flashbacks maintain a level of magic realism; we don’t quite know if they’re truth or fiction, but it reveals to the reader how desperate Marianne is to be understood by her friends, who, at this stage of the narrative, would rather not get involved.
The other shorter stories feature an elderly robot abductee, and a continuation of Jim's Series from Meathaus about Cedrick, a guy in a wolf hat and his friend, a pork roast."

The only problem is anyone who knows of the Screaming Chickens comics I did in Jr. High might remember I had a character named Pork-Chop Spam who resembled the afformentioned pork roast in ways only anthropomorphic meat could... that is to say, a lot. He beat me to the punch. Much better than when my 3 minute pilot of my Cowboys & Aliens cartoon is basically worth nothing now that Columbia Pictures is coming out with a movie of the same name.

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