Or Else #2: "Gloriana"

Or Else #2

by Kevin Huizenga

Small (4" x 5 1/2") softcover comix collection.

Genres: Fiction, Comics

Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Kevin Huizenga was born in 1977 in Harvey, IL and spent most of his childhood in South Holland, IL, near Chicago. He attended college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moved to St. Louis in 2000 where he lives and works.

He began drawing comics in high school, xeroxing his first issue (with friends) at the neighborhood Jewel Osco in 1993. Since that time he's made approximately 30 more. In 2001 the Comics Journal named him "Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year" and called #14 of his "Supermonster" mini-comic series "one of the best comics of any kind released in 2001."

In 2001 he also started the Catastrophe Shop http://www.usscatastrophe.com, an online shop for self-published mini-comics (now run by Dan Zettwoch http://www.usscatastrophe.com/zettwoch/).

Reviews

[First Second Books]

This has got to be one of my favorite comics ever for depicting how the mind works. In it, there’s a story where Glenn comes across his neighbors staring at the moon in the street; they think the end times have come. But Glenn actually knows how moons work and then spends the next ten pages talking about parallax and horizon lines and gets so distracted by how cool science is that the people scared of the apocalypse don’t even fit on the page anymore! And then when they come back, you find that they too have been overcome by science and just say, ‘Oh,’ and go home, knowing they are not shortly going to be dead (well, by apocalypse-means, anyways).

I find this to be excellent.