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Goat Comic Volume One
Goat comics for fans of Borges and Le Guin. Suitable for 12+. 36 page full-colour comic. A Visit to the Oracle The Feast of Laundry The Mushroom King Theses Info page about all the stupid jokes
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First published April 5, 2021
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April 24, 2021
This is kind of like Peter Blegvad's Leviathan combined with Kate Beaton's pony, mashed together as an underground zine. Only much more English. E Falconer is talented and strange, and her slim Goat Comic features cute-looking billies exploring the eldritch horrors of the universe, or fantasising about llamas, whichever comes first.
A lot of the fun is in her eclectic references: a fifteen-page story can include nods to Christina Rossetti, Russian folklore, Cold War numbers stations, the Iliad, Linear B and Ursula Le Guin. I loved the indulgence of the endnotes, which explain a lot of these hommages (although I wish I'd seen them earlier – I spent about ten minutes trying to work out the Linear B, before reading at the back: ‘I just downloaded a font and typed some rubbish, don't worry about trying to decode it’). But many of them I had missed, like the borrowing from Ivan Bilibin:
It's all deeply charming, and well worth a look if you are interested in arcane secrets, eating laundry, or other caprine delights.
A lot of the fun is in her eclectic references: a fifteen-page story can include nods to Christina Rossetti, Russian folklore, Cold War numbers stations, the Iliad, Linear B and Ursula Le Guin. I loved the indulgence of the endnotes, which explain a lot of these hommages (although I wish I'd seen them earlier – I spent about ten minutes trying to work out the Linear B, before reading at the back: ‘I just downloaded a font and typed some rubbish, don't worry about trying to decode it’). But many of them I had missed, like the borrowing from Ivan Bilibin:
It's all deeply charming, and well worth a look if you are interested in arcane secrets, eating laundry, or other caprine delights.
April 27, 2021
If goats and comics are your thing then this is a thing for you. Actually I am a big fan of the extensive notes at the end too which contextualise the comics and make sense of some of the more surreal aspects. Certainly I only got about half of the references it turned out.
The print is really fine and lovely (there are also stickers and a book mark) and each comic has a particular palette that gives it a different mood and adds to the artistry.
The print is really fine and lovely (there are also stickers and a book mark) and each comic has a particular palette that gives it a different mood and adds to the artistry.
May 1, 2021
My favourite things about this comic
1. The facial expression of the novice goat
2. The colours. Oh, the colours.
3. The four pages of information about the process and what literary works are being referenced.
An ideal comic if you like weird little stories about goats.
1. The facial expression of the novice goat
2. The colours. Oh, the colours.
3. The four pages of information about the process and what literary works are being referenced.
An ideal comic if you like weird little stories about goats.
April 21, 2021
Goat comics for fans of Borges and Le Guin. Giant pink mushrooms and feasts of laundry.
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