Worst-Case Scenarios

Emailing with cartoonist Jordan Crane about his incredible artwork for this month’s Slate Book Review, I asked if he could dial down, just a little bit, the pools of blood in his illustration for a book about a massacre at a Hopi village. “Haha, yes, I do love my pooling blood!” he wrote back. And it’s true—the stories in the latest edition of Crane’s series of comics, Uptight No. 5, do feature quite a bit of blood, though it doesn’t only pool. Sometimes it spatters, or spurts, or in one memorable story set in space floats in perfect little zero-gravity globules. Continue reading at 'Slate'

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