From Booklist
Rick is struggling to balance the demands on his artistic and personal energy by women who want more commitment than he feels comfortable offering, cliquish workmates, and bosses who put conformity above craft. An artist starving for understanding and a place in the everyday world, although not for groceries, Rick has moved to Seattle, where his personal disintegration threatens to turn him into a suicidal zombie. White portrays all this in lively, quirky black-and-orange, bringing the world of game-writing, social dynamics at work and in apartment buildings, and the adoration of a pet cat into delightfully cogent emotional focus while maintaining lines and panels that bounce with humor even in the face of depression. This indie graphic novel has high appeal, especially for Rick’s peers—the young and hip who aren’t as sure of their interpersonal worlds as of their artistic ones. The fantasy element of Rick’s gradual zombification is slyly funny without becoming grotesque. --Francisca Goldsmith
About the Author
Shane Patrick White [b.1970] I’ve spent most of my life writing and drawing. My first book, NORTH COUNTRY was published in 2005. It was an autobiographical account of growing up in the mid-70s in a hard-scrabble mill town. The second, THINGS UNDONE was published in 2009. Its semi-autobiographical as it deals with a man whose desperation of coping with change has him turning into a zombie.
Of course this did not really happen.
I reside in the Northwest.
More work can be found here: WWW.SHANEWHITE.COM and here WWW.STUDIOWHITE.COM
