Knee Deep, Book One Marcelo D'Salete and the mysteriously distracted Jillian—have

and the mysteriously distracted Jillian—have reunited at their favorite con

and then ultimately returned to the guitar

as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse

and continues to do so over ninety years since his death

Drnaso cracks open his characters’ masks and takes us through an unsettling American journey

Knee Deep, Book One Marcelo D'Salete and the mysteriously distracted Jillian—haveBy Joe Flood. Published by Oni Press. Softcover, 224 pages, Colour, 2023 In the year 2223, a teenage girl must venture through underground tunnels and canals in search of her parents who disappeared while on a mining expedition. Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and