Rohan Patrick McDonald
Welcome, once again, to the South Side Weekly’s annual Comics Issue—our third. After three years of publishing comics in a city also home to the Illustrated Press, For the People Artists Collective, Curbside Splendor, CAKE, and so much more, we’re confident Chicagoans know their city is full of stories only images can tell.
This story, presenting the oneiric passages of two kids growing up on the South Side, is a fiction piece excerpted from Carlos Matallana’s ongoing comic book project Manual of Violence, a guide on youth violence made in conversation with teens for teachers. This fall, Matallana will release the full fiction segment, which is a short interlude in the middle of Manual of Violence’s four nonfiction chapters, and plans to release the full book in February 2018.
Christopher Good
An illustrated version of our review/appreciation of the Far Southeast Side’s Calumet Fisheries, published in our 2017 Food Issue.
Sage Coffey
