Black Cohosh [Paperback]

A heartfelt, comedic coming-of-age debut from a bright new talent


When we meet Eagle Valiant Brosi, he is a long-haired commune kid, bullied by other kids,teachers, and his neighbors. And because of his speech impediment, Eagle observessilently and often. Moma classic earthy, free spirit prone to discursive lectures on naturalmedicine and the efficacy of certain plantsis the only one who really cares. So Eagle letsothers talk and talk and talk, revealing their true natures and selfish (sometimes evenselfless) motivations.


In Black Cohosh, Eagle pieces together the puzzling and hurtful things he has been told ashe takes his first, tragic steps into adulthood. While things may seem grim, Brosisdrawings are loose and limber, stretching and falling across each page. His cast of hippiearchetypes come with iconic thatches of hair, bushy beards, and scrawny, gesticulatingarms. Black Cohosh is a captivating debut from a natural storyteller with the expert timingof a veteran comedian and the soothing empathy of a death doula.
Eagle Valiant Brosi tells us a complicated story with dogged simplicity. In Black Cohosh, idealism and love are thrown together with delusion and selfishness; awful harm is tangled up with care. This is the kind of comic that made me want to make comicsit's the kind of comic that let me know what was possible. Eleanor Davis

Casually brutal, in the manner of a childs perfectly unsentimental gaze, Brosis gem of a debut captures his fractured upbringing... in the Appalachian back-to-the-land commune where he was raised. The bittersweetness of this graphic memoirs hard truths makes a lasting impression. 
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