New Contemporary Horror Graphic Novel ‘The Cutting Garden’ Announced By Image Comics
by Olly MacNamee
Image Comics has announced The Cutting Garden, an all-new, high-brow graphic novel from award-winning writer Darcy Van Poelgeest (Little Bird, Precious Metal) and watercolour artist Erin Connally. The book explores the themes of companionship, legacy, and sacrifice. Here’s the briefest of plots with a nod to some of the literary influences that influenced this new title:
“On a quiet street in New Orleans, a mysterious girl seeks out a florist to deliver an earth-shattering truth in a final act of kindness and redemption. The Cutting Garden is an intimate and elegant gothic tale that shares bloodlines with contemporary literary horror books like that of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and postmodern indie films like The Tree of Life.”
Van Poelgeest states:
“The Cutting Garden has been a labor of love for many years and I’m thrilled we can finally share it with the world. The process of writing and creating this story has sincerely changed me, as a writer, and a person. My hope now is that readers will take this journey themselves through the stifling shadows of Louisiana, and perhaps they too might feel a change.”
And Connally added:
“As my debut in comics, I wanted to offer readers a visual feast that represents both Darcy and my fascination with beauty and decay. As a southerner, I needed to capture the landscape that’s inspired me since I was a child. The Cutting Garden is this combination — a weird little Southern Gothic lullaby that I hope readers will be entranced by.”
The Cutting Garden original graphic novel hardcover will be out in local comic book shops on Wednesday, the 2nd of September — and in bookstores on Tuesday, the 29th of September — from Image Comics.
