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I was honoured and grateful to see Burial King made LAMBIEK’s (Amsterdam) Top 10 Comics of 2025 list. Thank you Lambiek Comix - Strips.
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What is the Burial King comic book?
It was supposed to be a comic about a family owned funeral home in a country town. It became a multilayered autobiography with an ensemble cast, told through the lens of a kitten.
I drew panels first and wrote second, blind to direction more than 3 pages ahead. Bad technique morphed into an obsessive investigation into my founding memories. The project spanned 2 years outside of a lonely reality working night shifts as a security guard with a booze problem. Sticking with the fictional kitten costume, I've honed in on some type of dissociative amnesia, foggy recalls of a warped childhood, and lurking familial denial.
Burial King was not created in irony. No wink at the audience is made. None of it is real, but, every panel is exceptionally familiar to me, and makes for the clearest auto-bio explanation of my life I can muster.
