Hot House

by  John Hankiewicz
104 pages
 
An unnamed man and woman live in a house together but rarely interact. Each of them attends to mundane tasks such as laundry and sweeping. Then time, space, and reality all warp around them in unexpected ways as they confront past selves, suffocating dust storms, and an environment that's as claustrophobic as it is familiar.
 
This is Hot House, by John Hankiewicz., one of the innovators of comics-as-poetry. With his brilliant minicomics series Tepid, his brilliant collection Asthma, and his first full-length story Education, Hankiewicz established himself as a fearlessly bold master of enigmatic but deeply emotional symbology, a poetic language predicated on visual rhythms, and a master illustrator and cartoonist. Hot House represents the latest in a series of cutting-edge, challenging, and deeply rewarding poetic narratives.
 
A Comics Journal 2024 Best Comic of the Year!