The Daily Heller: Gary Panter and the Tabloids

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Desert Island is an essential comics emporium in Brooklyn that also publishes a tabloid called Smoke Signal. As the project’s website states,For the first 10 years, Smoke Signal was a submission-based anthology with multiple artists in each issue, edited by Gabe Fowler with occasional guest editors. Starting with issue 30 in 2018, Smoke Signal has shifted to a series of solo artist issues, which has changed the project significantly. Issue 44, featuring the work of Gary Panter, came in the mail yesterday—and unfortunately for you, it’s currently out-of-print. During COVID I did more than 100 drawings compiling images that I could use as elements of an associative hieroglyph.