Ephemera HC AFTERSHOCK The adventures of comics' most

The adventures of comics' most put-upon super hero

On the back cover is a band portrait by the photographer Yousuf Karsh

Opener Alphabet dissects the premise

at his makeshift garage studio in the Outer Sunset (pictured on the cover)

Ephemera HC AFTERSHOCK The adventures of comics' mostA debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental