Twisted Romance Volume 1

by Alex de Campi, Various, Katie Skelly (Artist), Alejandra Gutierrez (Artist), Carla Speed McNeil (Artist)

Overview

Four stories of love and lust from comics' coolest artists and writer ALEX DE CAMPI! First, a demon who prowls the 1978 New York disco scene in Old Flames, drawn by KATIE SKELLY. Then, a curvy photographer's assistant who falls in love with someone way out of her league in Twinkle & The Star, with ALEJANDRA GUTIÉRREZ. A spacefleet captain who captures a most infuriating pirate in Invincible Heart, with CARLA SPEED MCNEIL. And a princess who runs away with a dragon in Treasured, with TRUNGLES.

Plus steamy prose romance stories from awesome folks like Magen Cubed and Vita Ayala, and more comics shorts about love from Meredith McClaren, Sarah Horrocks, Margaret Trauth and Sarah Winifred Searle.

Collects Twisted Romance #1-4.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534307537
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	09/11/2018
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	1,113,603
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Alex de Campi writes comics. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed teen survival thriller NO MERCY and the groundbreaking, digital-native comic VALENTINE. Her bestselling, criticially-acclaimed comics and graphic novels TWISTED ROMANCE with various artists, MAYDAY with Tony Parker, NO MERCY with Carla Speed McNeil, DRACULA MOTHERF**KER and PARASOCIAL with Erica Henderson, BAD KARMA with Ryan Howe, and SCRAPPER with Cliff Bleszinski and Sandy Jarrell are all published by Image Comics. She was nominated for an Eisner for her first comic work, Smoke, and it's all been downhill from there. Alex also directs music videos, and has worked with acts as diverse as Grand Duchy (Frank Black / Violet Clark), Joan As Police Woman, and Amanda Palmer to the retro-fabulous Puppini Sisters.

Alex's background is a three-whisky conversation and involves several continents. She is a single mother of an awesome daughter; they live in the Stephen Kingdom (Downeast Maine) with two dogs. She has an opinion on nearly everything. You can peruse them, along with stupid photos and memes, at @alexdecampi on most social media.

Editorial Reviews

09/10/2018
This generous anthology collects the offbeat contemporary romance series’ first four issues, written primarily by de Campi and drawn by a variety of buzzy artists. The genre offerings are pleasantly eclectic, including fantasy, science fiction, and down-to-earth stories of modern love, featuring characters of many shapes, colors, and sexual orientations. Prose stories, less memorable than the comics, are sprinkled throughout. The anthology suffers from uneven quality, with the caliber of art and writing improving as the series progresses. Outstanding entries include “Twinkle and the Star,” a cute story about a fashion photographer’s assistant who catches the eye of the star she’s photographing; “Treasured,” a fairy tale allegory rendered in lovely Aubrey Beardsley–like art; and “Invincible Heart,” a science fiction drama about a cocky space pirate that benefits from pencil art by Carla Speed McNeil (Finder). Although the title suggests dark and disturbing material, the romance stays at a PG (or maybe PG-13) level and most of the stories are upbeat. Overall, the hits outweigh the misses, and the series as a whole is a welcome update of the classic frilly romance comic. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"A comic book event should get people excited and invite newcomers to join in the fun. Ideally it tries something new and taps into the unexplored potential of the medium. Twisted Romance is that kind of an event, a weekly anthology series that breaks from the norm to achieve greatness." —The Onion's AV Club

“Twisted Romance is a devastatingly sexy comic.” —io9

“A nice balance to all the sugar you’ll get this Valentine’s.” —Uproxx

“Twisted Romance is an unusual new anthology, one that promises interesting work from some of the best in contemporary comics, and a project that expands the idea what a romance comic can be in the mainstream market, both structurally and thematically.” —Comic Book Resources

“Twisted Romance is in the best tradition of bold, experimental comic book creation.” —The Oregonian

“Twisted Romance is presenting some of the most interesting and talented creators working within comics today, and what they provide to this collection is representative of just why that is.” —ComicBook.com

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