The Whistling Factory

By Jesse McManus. Published by Uncivilized Books.

Softcover, 286 pages, 2018

A boring summer afternoon. What to do with all the idle time? Carving some nonsense into a tree with a pocket knife releases a tree troll, gushing, soaking out the zone . . . did we mention the elven eggs yet? Or feral children, paper hauses (yes hauses), or the monsters? Drawn in fluid hyper-kinetic style, with sharp brush strokes and bathed in surreal color, The Whistling Factory is an eye-popping debut from the fevered imagination of Jesse McManus. 

Jesse McManus has been drawing comics for a long time. He was the youngest contributor to the now legendary oversize Kramer's Ergot #7. His comics have been featured in many different publications, including Vice. McManus lives and works in Portland, Oregon.