In the first panel, I’m reading Lisa Hanawalt’s comics. You should be too.
About the Author:
Julia Wertz was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1982 and now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she works as a cartoonist and writer. She has published three books, the most recent being Drinking at the Movies, from Three Rivers Press. Her work can be seen at the unfortunately titled website fartparty.org. She’s pretty much sorry about everything.
We heard the risen, ragged sun caught fire:
first, a shadow charcoaled over Chelyabinsk
and turned the air to gunpowder, then
a constellation of ignited smoke
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