On sale date: August 20, 2024
Cutting Season features 16 short stories that collectively showcase the singular style and vision of New Delhi cartoonist Bhanu Pratap. Seamlessly blending distortion, abstraction, romance, sex, body horror, isolation, violence, color, humor, and a seductive sense of design and composition (or, as the artist puts it, “love, gags, shit, holes, crashes, and bodies”), Cutting Season is an unnerving and sustained howl, in comics form, that demands attention like a raw, exposed nerve.
Cutting Season is part of the Fantagraphics Underground imprint.
Praise
"Pratap makes haunting, vivid stories in a netherworld between gag strips and poetry." — The Comics Journal
"Pratap draws some of the most bizarrely smooshed and stretched out human figures, like the rubbery people of a Bill Plympton or John Kricfalusi cartoon got melted by Salvador Dalí... If you crave surrealism in your comics and don't mind your storytelling on the abstract side, give this book a look." — The Arts STL
"You may already be familiar with Bhanu Pratap's comics for his contributions to Fantagraphics' anthology series NOW: The New Comics Anthology. Now his work will be getting its own showcase collection courtesy of Fantagraphics' Underground imprint. Great news." — Andy Oliver - Broken Frontier
"By first marrying, then utterly giving in to, his artistic and psychosexual impulses, by luxuriating in the excesses he delineates with such frankly awe-inspiring attention to their fundamentals, Pratap is drawing readers into a world exclusively and entirely his own, and leaving you to make of it what you will. Language will only get you so far when it comes to describing this stuff." — Four Color Apocalypse
"The vision at the heart of Cutting Season is sweeping and absolute, cementing itself as one of the most fully-realized—and most harrowingly beautiful—releases in quite some time." — Hagai - Solrad
Specs
- Pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Full color.
- Dimensions
- 8.8" × 11.3"
- ISBN-13
- 9781683969815