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SEAFOOD
by Josh Frankel
($4.00 from Josh Frankel,
www.hungryforbrains.com)
Review by Mark Campos
From its two-color silkscreened cover to its lucid art and careful greytones, this is a lovely artifact. This smallish book follows a yellowfin tuna on his daily rounds, eating small fish, swimming high and low, and finding evidence of man's degradation of his ocean home. It's anything but didactic: unanthropomorphized and mute, the tuna is still a likeable character; and when he meets his fate at the end, he's a tragic hero. A short text piece at the back of the book is full of frightening details about the tuna fishing industry.
Whatever award for small-press comics excellence there might be,
Seafood should be a heavy contender for the best-of next year. Meanwhile, I'd suggest he produce an inexpensive version, something I can leave in the canned foods aisle of the supermarket Jack Chick style.
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