Neighbourhood Sacrifice
Steph Davidson, Michael DeForge, Jesjit Gill, writers/artists
self-published, 2009
12 pages
$2
See sample images and buy it from Michael DeForge
Bam bam bam bam bam–with each turn of the page, this cheap newsprint zine hits you with a powerful image as big as the trim size will allow. The images–a quick google search for the artists’ homepages reveals I’m out of my element at trying to deduce who did what based on their other work, for the most part, though I think I at least recognize DeForge when I see him–are tailored for maximum impact. Maximum awesomeosity, if you will. You’ve got DeForge’s trademark slimy monsters, seemingly constructed out of bits of thousands of other beasts–like if Shub Niggurth were made of her 1,000 young. You’ve got massive, realistically drawn altars laden with occult and Egyptian kitsch. You’ve got a guy looking into the mirror to see a melted-faced monstrosity staring back at him; turn the page and another guy’s cutting his cubist-looking face in half with a sword. Heck, the thing opens with a pretty hilarious selection of newspaper comic titles given DeForge’s heavy-metal typography treatment. (My favorites are Ziggy, which uses a sword for the “i” in the style of The Legend of Zelda, and Hi and Lois, whose letters are used to form a grinning skull.) It’s a delirious, this-goes-to-eleven experience, over almost as soon as it begins.
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thanks for the kind words! Steph Davidson did the drawings of the altars, Jesjit Gill did the deformed/mutilating figures.
See, if pressed, based on their pages, I would have guessed the opposite. I’m glad I admitted my ignorance!
yeah, i forget what our reasoning was for not including credits on it. it made sense at the time, haha!