The Rough Pearl Paperback by Kevin Fraser Mutch

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2020-04-07)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 180 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683962847
• Item Weight: 595.35 grams
• Dimensions: 25.98 x 20.35 x 1.52 cm

Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Kevin Mutch skewers theory-spouting academics, sleazy art dealers, and obnoxious over-sharers.

In this graphic novel, Adam Kline is an aspiring artist with bleak prospects, stuck in a thankless adjunct teaching gig and married to an ambitious woman tired of supporting his starry-eyed pipe dreams. Just as things seem to be looking up for hapless Adam, he begins to black out at random and awaken in a pitch-dark void surrounded by billions of probing eyes. When these uncanny visions appear in his real life, he starts to worry that he’s losing his mind…

About the Author

Kevin Fraser Mutch is a cartoonist, digital artist, and painter from Winnipeg, Canada. He received an MFA in painting from the University of Victoria. His graphic novel Fantastic Life received a Xeric Award in 2010 and was excerpted in The Best American Comics 2011.