The urge to step out of the boundaries and explore. To fly. To ascend.
But what happens after ascent? What happens when you land? And what happens when you find yourself in a place where your dreams are no one's but your own?
Charlo Frade is an illustrator and writer born in Miami, Florida. In 2014 he received the Society of Illustrators Honors Award for Illustration. Goatherded is his first full length comic.
40 full colour pages, saddle stitched, 210 x 267mm.
A psychedelic scifi story worthy to grace the pages of Métal Hurlant. A boy wakes up in a floating cube on a barren planet and is confronted to a man with a goat head. As he explores, he lands on a portal that transports him to another planet, where he gets sacrificed to some malevolent god while tourists watch absentmindedly. It's all very weird, and I'm not quite sure what it means, if anything. But it's very moody and incredibly cool looking