Out of Hollow Water
Archie Bongiovanni
$10.95
104 pages
6 × 6 inches
color cover
french flaps
black & white and 2 color interior
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A shadow smeared dream-cycle rife with haunting symbolism. The AV Club
An unsettling and haunting debut. Publishers Weekly
Just from looking at Bongiovanni’s style, you know you’re about to experience something deeply personal. Autostraddle
Out of Hollow Water, the debut book by Archie Bongiovanni, is an exercise in the fantastical and intensely personal, plumbing hidden depths both real and imagined. It is a work that wanders into the dark recesses of the female experience, where the only escape is through cathartic release, taking myriad forms. This book draws and expands upon themes Bongiovanni has cultivated in past works, while signaling a shift in presentation. Moving from the rough, scratchy inked pages of their minicomics to the hazy imperfection of pencil on vellum, Bongiovanni has constructed a space befitting their oblique narratives. This triptych of stories showcases a stark, emergent voice in the ever growing world of comics, one worth following down whatever path they might take you.
There’s a beautiful eeriness to Bongiovanni’s work that I find irresistible. Like an old black and white film about some forgotten fairy tale. — Noah Van Sciver
Haunting, disturbing, breathtaking and beautiful — this is a story that will stay with you. — MariNaomi
Archie’s scratchy, understated line unerringly evokes helplessness, violation, and a lingering sense of psychic revulsion, dropping the presumed morals out from under you and then implicating you in the inevitable disaster. The effect is smart, chilling, viscerally disturbing but never showy or cruel. — Julia Gfrörer