{"product_id":"spiral-and-other-stories","title":"Spiral and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA delicate, dreamlike, and lushly detailed comics collection by a contemporary artist whose work explores the enmeshment of the human and non-human worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor years, Aidan Koch's comics have been pushing the boundaries of the medium, helping reimagine what a comic can look like, and the kinds of stories it can tell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKoch has been living and working in the desert of California, turning her focus toward the ways humans and the natural world converge. \u003ci\u003eSpiral and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph of that continuing process. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharacters yearn for each other, even as they're pulled toward different lives. Rivers dance together and then diverge as they make their way to see the sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an accompanying essay by the author and critic Nicole Rudick, who explores Koch's craft and her move into environmentally focused comics, \u003ci\u003e Spiral and Other \u003c\/i\u003eStories is a showcase of Koch's mastery of the form of comics, as a medium that can contain astonishing forms and tell new stories for our uncertain times.\r","brand":"Aidan Koch, Nicole Rudick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44449782169836,"sku":"9781681378350","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781681378350.jpg?v=1709488601","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/spiral-and-other-stories","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}