On sale date: January 26, 2027
A Cronenbergian conflation of a love story and body horror as an HR manager and her girlfriend get entangled with a man who discovers a strange phenomenon in his apartment.
Acclaimed cartoonist Bhanu Pratap (NOW, Cutting Season) delivers the first long form work of his still-ascending career. Pratap seamlessly blends his core obsessions—distortion, abstraction, romance, sex, body horror, isolation, violence, color, humor, and a seductive sense of design and composition—into a thrilling love story about an HR manager and her girlfriend who get sucked into the life of a young man experiencing a terrifying phenomenon that traps him in his apartment. When Brina attempts to visit the man at home after he stops showing up at work, she discovers something way beyond her pay grade. The World Is An After-Image is simultaneously both the most vividly accessible work of Pratap’s career, while also remaining true to his distinctively haunting and romantic artistic vision.
Praise
"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." — The Arts STL
"Pratap remains one of the most intriguing newer voices to make his mark on the medium in recent years." — Broken Frontier
"Transition, transformation, and transmogrification of the physical body leads to questions that cut to the heart of identity itself. One of the most conceptually exciting cartoonists working today, Pratap also has the sheer drawing skill required to bring these singular visions of anything-but-singular forms to ecstatically nauseating life." — Four Color Apocalypse
"The vision at the heart of?[Pratap’s work]?is sweeping and absolute, cementing itself as one of the most fully-realized—and most harrowingly beautiful—releases in quite some time." — Solrad
Specs
- Pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Black-and-white with some color
- Dimensions
- 8.5" × 11"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875004223