Burrow

by Marnie Galloway

Burrow is a poetic/fiction comic about new motherhood and the tension between the feral, animal wildness of infant care and the mundanity of the domestic world.

Genres: Comics

32 pages

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Marnie Galloway is a comic artist and illustrator working in Chicago, Illinois. She was born in Austin, Texas and studied philosophy and symbolic logic at Smith College. She is best known for her three-part wordless comic series In the Sounds and Seas, which won a 2012 Xeric Grant, was nominated for the 2013 LA Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel, and made the Notable Comics list in Best American Comics 2014. Galloway's comics have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Saveur Magazine, Cricket Magazine, and the 826CHI Compendium.

Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 5 out of 5]

8/2/24: I found this book at a used book store and bought it, though I already have it, so I can give it away, but I read it again and liked it very much, as before.

Original review, 6/12/17: I bought this at the 2017 CAKE (an alt comics convention in Chicago). Galloway, a Chicago artist, wrote the gorgeous and ethereal book In the Sounds and Seas, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and here she extends her mythological interests in a poetic and fictional account of motherhood, connecting a woman's obviously visceral motherhood experience with the wild, with the earth. That point is not original, maybe, but it is still powerfully rendered, and personal for new mother Galloway, who dedicates the book to her newborn son, Ilan. Gorgeous work that reminds you of the beauty in what we might otherwise think of as the mundane. But I guess that's one purpose of art, eh?

You can maybe get Burrow here:

https://marniegalloway.squarespace.com

An interview with Galloway by Brian Cremins from 2014:

https://brianwcremins.wordpress.com/2...

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Painfully & lushly beautiful, true.

[Akiva ꙮ · Rating 4 out of 5]

SPX 2017

[Shoshanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful. Quiet. Powerful. Mesmerizing.

[Madalene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Visceral and beautiful.