September Book Club - Graphic Novel Month - Flinch vol 1, Proctor Valley Road
Details
During our biannual graphic novel months, we usually do two titles, because they read pretty quick. Feel free to read one or both:
Flinch, vol 1 - Various writers and artists
From the publisher:
The legendary Vertigo horror anthology that will get under your skin—one slice at a time.
It's the little things in life that matter most: the tiny leak in the fuel line; the faint smell of decay that won't wash off; the way a knife blade catches the light. These are the things that stick with us, no matter how much we want to forget—the things that make us flinch.
No one is more familiar with this unnerving territory than the twisted souls whose hallucinatory work is preserved between these covers—an unprecedented gathering of fever dreams and waking nightmares scraped directly from the darkest corners of the greatest minds in comics.
Collects FLINCH #1-8. Featuring work by Brian Azzarello, Jim Lee, Garth Ennis, Frank Quitely, Bill Willingham, Richard Corben, Eduardo Risso, Bill Sienkiewicz and many more.
We're only doing the first volume of this (there are two published collections of the individual issues), but feel free to read more. Info on the series in general is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinch_(comics)
Also:
Proctor Valley Road - Grant Morrison, Alex Child, Naomi Franquiz
From the publisher:
August, Rylee, Cora & Jennie have organized a “Spook Tour” with their classmates on the most haunted, demon-infested stretch of road in America to fund attending the concert of their dreams. But when their visit turns deadly, these four friends race to rescue the missing students… before the town tears them limb from limb. Now they must slay the evils roaming Proctor Valley Road… along with the monsters lurking in the hearts of 1970s America. Visionary author Grant Morrison (Klaus, Batman: Arkham Asylum) and co-writer Alex Child (BBC’s Holby City) along with artist Naomi Franquiz (Tales from Harrow County) present a chilling new horror series about the mysterious monsters that haunt Proctor Valley Road – and the four misfit teenagers who must stop them. Collects Proctor Valley Road #1-5.
Again, we'll only be doing the first volume, but there is more for those who are interested. Grant Morrison is one of the legendary weirdos of comics; let's see what he does with horror.
https://www.boom-studios.com/series/proctor-valley-road/
Whew! That's a lot of words. Fortunately, the comic will have fewer words than that.
As always, you're welcome to come if you read both books, if you only read one, if you start one but never finish it, or if you walk by a comic book store, sniff the air real hard, decide that's close enough to reading them, and just want to come chill.
We will attempt to share audio of the meeting via our Discord. While the weather is (fingers crossed) still nice, we're going to head to Bruz off Fax to try to take advantage of their outdoor space.
Hope to see you!