![]() ![]() It feels a shame to shatter the quietude of the comics themselves.īut I learned first-hand that Koch is as garrulous, amicable, and confident a talker about her comics as the comics themselves are restrained and gestural: After introducing myself to her at this fall's Small Press Expo, I probably stood and talked with her about her work at her table for half an hour, and was repeatedly impressed by her articulate insights into both her comics and the process behind them. ![]() Indeed, the trajectory of this 24-year-old Olympia native's work has taken her from comparatively straightforward, meticulously penciled black-and-white slice-of-lifers-including many of the comics available on her website and her book-length debut, The Whale-into more inscrutable color work-the cryptic Grecian imagery of the broadsheet-format Q and her Xeric-winning story of mental illness (I think), The Blonde Woman, previously serialized at Study Group Comics. Gossamer pencil rendering, conspicuous gaps in both image and text, a tendency to put just enough on a page and no more-these techniques give Koch's comics a sense of whispered mystery and melancholy. I almost didn't want to interview Aidan Koch, since so much of the power of her elliptical comics stems from things left unsaid. ![]()
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