Page 45 Review by Publisher Blurb
From the creator of MOTHBALLS, a 2024 Page 45 Comicbook Of The Month.
We begin aboard ship in the dim, distant and very foggy past as a mother mislays a baby which she wasn't really bothered about in the preceding panels. It's possibly better off with the purple-shrouded sisterhood disembarking with their goat.
Much nearer to the present a married man has begun spying on a covern which is up to all sorts of things which are not safe for work. Fortunately, I've not photographed those. It's had an effect on his sex drive. But was this the voyeurism itself, or his proximity to their secret ceremonies of which he may, in fact, have become an integral part? He implores his mate a) to believe him b) to join him up his spy-tree. I'm awful at climbing trees.
In a subsequent scenario, a woman joins the sisterhood, sequestered in the countryside, as their housekeeper. She's not told them about her baby; they haven't told her what they're up to.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
The publisher writes:
"Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1768. It is a dark and foreboding night when the boat arrives from Europe, bringing three shadowy figures to shore. The María sisters have come to take the New World by storm. At once righteous and menacing, the sisters will exert their insidious powers over generations, leaving a wreckage of shattered spirits in their wake.Told through the eyes of the people whose lives the sisters have cast asunder, Witchcraft is a mesmerizing mystery to piece together. Strange magic, dark humor, and a fiery undercurrent of female rage cohere into a heady tale of colonialism, indigenous folklore, and modern agoraphobia. A kaleidoscopic work of literary fiction, crafted with vision and verve, that assures Sole Otero as one of South America’s most dynamic cartoonists."
I loved MOTHBALLS soooooo much!
