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Review: Ed Choy Moorman's Ghost Comics
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Allegra Lockstadt's beautiful cover. [Courtesy Ed Moorman]
Ghost Comics is an odd book. Edited by Ed Choy Moorman, a recent graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and funded by a Xeric grant, given by the Xeric Foundation to help comics artists self-publish their material, it’s a collection of short stories from a variety of primarily local creators. As the title suggests, the stories are all in some way about ghosts, though the connection is often tenuous: a short story by Jeffrey Brown only uses the word “ghost” in the title, while a piece by Lucy Knisley uses ghosts only as a metaphor for memories of a time long past.
The pieces in the anthology have a wide variety of content, from Toby Jones’ reflections on helping his girlfriend deal with the death of her mother, to Hob’s tale of a dinosaur’s ghost experiencing the death of the universe, to Evan Palmer’s fantasy tale of a knight conquering monsters for the love of his lady, to Aidan Koch’s surreal piece that seems to describe his perception of a haunting. Visually, too, the pieces are quite diverse, with everything from the straightforward cartooning of Knisley and Kevin Cannon to the disarmingly strange pencils of Jillian Schroeder and the lush brushwork of Sean Lynch. (Full disclosure: this writer is currently working on a project with Mr. Lynch.) Though the works are uniformly high-quality, they have very little in common either in form and content, and there’s some strange juxtapositions. Whatever, it’s an anthology; schizophrenia just means there’s a good range of artists.
Copies of Ghost Comics can be ordered from Magers and Quinn booksellers, and should also be available at Arise! in Uptown and Big Brain Comics in downtown Minneapolis.
Net proceeds from Ghost Comics go to RS Eden, a non-profit agency that works in the areas of substance abuse treatment, family services, and affordable housing.
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