Hysteria #1: IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

That I published my first comic, an anthology of short stories that began with this wordless sequence. Another case where comics expressed more directly what I struggled to do in prose.

Hysteria #1: DAY OF THE MERMAIDS

The first multi-page story for Hysteria #1, this was the kind of thing I had in mind when I started thinking of short story ideas as comics. It's a magical realist fable that kept on turning into a cut-rate Peter Carey story when I tried to write it. Driving the other way and using only pictures solved that problem.