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by Jacob Weinstein
Winner of the Xeric Foundation Grant Award, Dirty Boxes is a graphic
novel consisting of three stories: “Refuse” is a post-industrial
chutes-and-ladders game as if designed by Alexander Rodchenko; “Cleft
Mallet” places Huckleberry Finn before a cracked rear-view mirror; and
finally, “Egg-Minus” stirs Russian legend, vaudevillian comic strip
mayhem, and grimy Berlin realism into a meaty gallinaceous cocktail as three
tangentially related narratives are woven around the motifs of love, betrayal,
decapitation, and poultry. Tottering between a belly laugh and pretentious
slush, Dirty Boxes is a stylistic slumgullion with a deliciously hollow
center. Perfect bound.
SC, 96pg, b&w
