A review by hangsawoman
Black Is the Color by Julia Gfrörer

i found Visions arresting and beautiful so I knew I had to read Gfrörer's other two available comics. this one concerns a sailer who is set adrift. at night a mermaid begins to visit him, although her intentions are unclear beyond the erotic. she probes him with deeply personal questions... in a fun, peculiar twist, the mermaids, when speaking amongst themselves, talk like you or i may do. they discuss making noise music projects, or catching shows. they are outside of the book's time frame, adrift in their own sort of metatextual way. Gfrörer's are is, as always, stunning to behold, the sharp, beautiful faces and the crumpled bodies and the complicated horror of the open see all portrayed beautifully. Two books into her ouvre now I can see a particular line around the erotic and the destruction that lies as a possibility at the end of it - but what makes Gfrörer smart is that this is not a bad thing. that desctruction... why does it have to be bad? sometimes it good to be destroyed. or want to be.