Hundreds of feet below daylight by James Sturm

This tiny and nearly perfect story is the second of Sturm’s investigations of the dark corners of pioneer life in 19th-century America. The first, The Revival, dealt with spiritual yearning as seen in an intense outbreak of unorganized religion in rural Kentucky. In Hundreds of Feet, he turns to the blunt force of material need [...]

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Couverture Bearing Witness : an interview with James Sturm

Bearing Witness : an interview with James Sturm Entretien de Eli Bishop

James Sturm, after toiling to achieve national obscurity like many Fantagraphics artists in the early ’90s, has recently caused surprise and excitement with his comics novellas The Revival and Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight. These short historical fictions (part of a planned trilogy) are hard to compare to anything else currently being done in North [...]