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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Percy Gloom’


Every week, the Comics Page introduces you to brand-new graphic novels by the world’s best artists and writers. Manga, superheroes, indie comix — we’ll cover them all as our editors select the best the exploding comics world has to offer.


When timid Percy Gloom is hired for his dream job at the Safety Now Cautionary Writing Institute, he enters a surreal world of menacing household objects and learns a troubling truth about the father who left him behind so long ago.


Today on the Comics Page, we’re excerpting Percy Gloom, the deliciously downbeat (and offbeat) debut graphic novel from Cathy Malkasian, just published by Fantagraphics Books.

Percy Gloom, by Cathy Malkasian


What happens next? Read Percy Gloom, just published by Fantagraphics Books.

Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Percy Gloom’