Lillie J. Harris
SPX Table i8
$10.00
Adults Only
Category: History and Horror
A young Black child in the early 20th century turns to Vampirism in order to protect her deceased sister’s body from being stolen by physicians. Lillie’s multi-media cartooning seamlessly tells a supernatural story based on a terrible history. Lillie’s storytelling is complex, and we are encouraged to slow down and take in all the details of their pages. Several pages of this comic are left in thumbnail or penciled states. In the back of the comic, Lillie suggests the weight of the subject matter is part of the reason the “unfinished” pages are left the way they are. But the “unfinished” nature of the comic suggests an unfinished nature to both Dearly’s quest to protect Ida Jean, and our own unfinished task of confronting our shared past.