{"product_id":"9781681378350","title":"Spiral and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor years, Aidan Koch’s comics have been pushing the boundaries of the medium, reimagining what a comic can look like and how it can tell a story.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKoch has been living and working in the desert of California, turning her focus toward the ways humans and the natural world converge. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpiral and Other Stories\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a triumph of that continuing process. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUsing watercolors, pencils, crayons, charcoals, and collage, Koch builds worlds of dense detail and vast open spaces, urgent scrawled text and long silences, telling a series of stories about people and the places they inhabit.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharacters yearn for each other, even as they’re pulled toward different lives. Rivers dance together, then diverge as they make their way to the sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith an accompanying essay by the author and critic Nicole Rudick, who explores Koch’s craft and her move into environmentally focused comics,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSpiral and Other\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a showcase of Koch’s mastery of comics as a medium that can contain astonishing forms and offer new kinds of storytelling for our uncertain times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49091697410357,"sku":"9781681378350","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/Spiral.webp?v=1714504883","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/9781681378350","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}