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...Those new to Huizenga would be best served by starting with "Or Else" #2, which contains his most sustained, complex story. A small novella - at 96 half-sized pages - titled "Gloriana," it again weaves different timelines together, along with the fantastic and the ordinary. The girlfriend of "NST '04" has become Glenn's wife, Wendy Caramel-Ganges, and the two are expecting a child. In one witty and surprising sequence Glenn lays his hands on Wendy's belly but he says he can't feel it kick. Magically she transfers the pregnancy to him. "How about now," she asks...
...Gloriana" ends with a strange encounter between Glenn and his next-door neighbors. The rising moon appears large and red on the horizon, a site his neighbors take as a sign of the apocalypse. Glenn attempts to disillusion them with a lengthy scientific explanation, which Huizenga depicts in a series of textbook-like drawings. These contrast with his figure style, which has a vague resemblance to the work of E. C. Segar and his "Popeye" characters with their soft shoulders and simplified faces. Huizenga concentrates less on the particular details of a panel in favor of its overall design...
Ideal Mate Now: Gloriana Salgado—we’re married on The Facebook...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Good morning Mr. Salgado. Yes, Gloriana is still in the shower and that’s why she can’t come to the phone...
...major draw of a show like the MOCCA Art Festival. Normally only available, if you know about them, through the mail or at hyper-intelligent alternative media stores, these little chapbooks are a window to the future of comics. Two of my favorites were Kevin Huizenga?s ?Gloriana Comics,? and Jonathan Bennett?s ?Esoteric Tales.? Huizenga?s book, about a young, expectant father, moves from silly gags to moments of contemplation to astrological physics, including a grand cosmological map that folds out of the center. In contrast, Bennett?s book couldn?t be more grounded, reveling as it does...