Damnation Diaries

Winner: MoCCA Award of ExcellenceRINGO Awards Nomination: Best ArtistNew York Public Libraries Best Comics of 2023 ListIn hell, everyone can hear you scream, but only one person listens.Hell can get you down. It's big, hot, often painful, and a hard place to get creative projects done. But something else is bothering inmate PKRx354--something beyond the unrelenting and often absurd torture routines, the demons, or the tormenting trio of his mother, father, and girlfriend also consigned to the Underworld. Luckily, there's help: Fred Greenberg--Hell's only psychotherapist. With Fred's stoic and perceptive guidance, the "talking cure" proves productive. That is, until a dastardly terrorist act by a mysterious faction threatens the very nature of the Underworld. Will our self-deprecating hero get to the cause of his nagging "ennui?" Will Fred find his own redemption? And will our hero ever find peace, or at least a vacation?Combining Dante, Douglas Adams, and Freud, Damnation Diaries is equal parts horror comedy and character-driven drama, uniquely converging the look of bronze-age comics with sharp literary satire. The book's imaginative and surreal landscape serves as a perfect backdrop for caustic social commentary that fits our equally surreal times. The setting may be imaginary, but the urgent issues addressed are not: growing economic inequality, student debt, political crisis, terrorism, and the attempt to find peace under the most hostile of circumstances.

Author:

Peter Rostovsky

Publisher:

Uncivilized Books

Publication Date:

Sep 05, 2023

Number of pages:

144 pages

Language:

English

Binding:

Paperback

ISBN-10:

1941250548

ISBN-13:

9781941250549