Epoxy #6

Epoxy #6

by John Pham

56 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Pham’s self-published Risographed comic book series Epoxy (“in lush soy ink in my garage”) features the exploits of a couple named J and K (whose earlier exploits are collected in J & K published by Fantagraphics last year). Epoxy #6 includes a hand-painted film cel; an episode from Pham’s science-fiction story, “Deep Space,” about the remaining crew of a crashed spaceship; an autobiographical four-page insert and, a 5”x6” zine insert featuring a new J and K story, in which the couple, exhausted as new parents to their baby, Bacne, find an old woman named Babushka to babysit him. While the parents play, Babushka takes Bacne on a shopping trip of sorts for ingredients for the pierogies she sells, including dumpster diving—it’s every parent’s (benign) nightmare. But Bacne is happy, so the parents are happy. Beautiful Risograph work throughout, and the different stories demonstrate the different styles Pham has cultivated.

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