ROTLAND DREADFULS NO. 10 BY R. SIKORYAK
The ROTLAND DREADFULS series is an homage to the cheaply-produced 19th century English pamphlets known as "Penny Dreadfuls"— so named because the original cost was one penny and they contained stories considered shocking and sensational. The tenth issue in this series presents a new installment of Masterpiece Comics, titled Sadistic Comics, chronicling the misfortunes of the Marquis de Sade's heroine Justine.
R. Sikoryak is the author of the graphic novels Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn and Quarterly), and the co-author, with Michael Smith, of The Seduction of Mike (Fantagraphics), a comic book funded by the NEA. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, Drawn and Quarterly, Raw, Fortune, Esquire, GQ, MAD, among many other publications, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has drawn storyboards and character designs for many animation projects produced by Augenblick Studios. He was awarded an Artist's Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts for his comics adaptations of classic literature. Since 1997, he has presented his live comics performance series, "Carousel," around the U.S. and Canada.
Sadistic Comics was chosen by editor Jonathan Lethem for inclusion in Best American Comics 2015.
16 pages | black ink on tan paper | stapled | 2014