Expelled into the hot, empty streets, fifteen-year-old Kit takes to feeding the stray cats that haunt the forgotten and unseen spaces of his town. There he also meets Jess, a manga-loving punk stuck with heavy-metal headbangers. She creates Katman, a ferocious shape-shifting stand-in for Kit’s quiet version of heroism. Not that he thinks of himself as a hero. After all, heroes don’t typically lie, steal, and hang out with crazy people. See excerpts and read reviews at the (LINK)

Sacred Grove
My 25 page graphic essay about the bioregion of Monte Amiata in Southern Tuscany is up on the Cultivate Journal website. Based on my experience









