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Kochalka, James – Magic Boy and Girlfriend
If you’ve read the rest of his work and wish for a little more, I don’t know, content to his work, you should go back and read this one. A collection of the “best of” his mini comics (call me a completist, but I really wish that people would just go ahead and reprint all of the stuff from their out of print minis, seeing as how nobody is ever going to see the stuff and a lot of it very important to see the development of the artist), this work is in a class by itself. Incredibly sad and introspective, it’s not the kind of thing you expect to see from this guy, and it turns out that it’s his first work. It’s probably because he was separated from his girlfriend at school, but this entire book just brings out feelings of loss and separation. I want to call old friends after I read this and try to figure out just why we don’t hang out any more. If you don’t like James Kochalka (and why are you reading his page if you don’t like him?), I still think you should get this book. It might show you a whole new side of the guy, which might make you appreciate his other books.
