HIST

HIST is a lightbright apocalyptic 19th century text-image blockbuster populated with behind-the-screen metaphysical rescues, chases, shipwrecks, love affairs, murders, hauntings, monsters, demonic possessions, and ritual offerings. Published by Calamari Press.

 

Press

"James Belflower and Matthew Klane’s Hist is as much a hallucinogen as a comic book, refiguring 19th-century imagery into pixel-crushed pages of gorgeous comics pulp. Here, everything’s glitched, distorted, and swimming in digital debris, resulting in a noisy-beautiful poetics steeped in granular horror, punk, and bursts of neon vaporwave. Innovative and brilliant—I can’t think of anything quite like it."—Nick Francis Potter

Excerpts + Reviews:

—Jesi Buell reviews Hist for Exacting Clam

—"Canoe Chase on the Horican" in Diagram

—"Birch in His Cottage" in Anomaly

—"Wreck of the Royal Caroline" in Harpy Hybrid Review

—"Pigeon Shooting" in New Delta Review

—"The Thicket on the Prairie" in Word For/Word

—"The Rescue of Hist" in Sleepingfish