Queen of the Black Black TP Paperback

Queen of the Black Black collects Megan Kelso's self-published early Girlhero stips as well as a few from other sources. Fans will remember her other works: the "Watergate Sue" serial in the New York Times' Sunday Magazine and Artichoke Tales. In this new collection, Kelso scrutinizes bicycle messengers, venereal diseases, infidelity, unwanted pregnancies, temporary work assignments, family reunions, and classroom daydreams in subtle and unexpected manners, setting herself technical challenges such as depicting music in comics (the virtuoso "The Daddy Mask," with its sensuous gray swirls of sound on the page), integrating lettering into artwork in creative ways, and generally working her way toward what would become her mature style.