The Grave
This is based on a true story.
No, I wasn’t the guy who killed the squirrel. Nor did I live in a street that was so hallucinatory in its symmetry and design.
I was visiting my parents when a guy turned up at the door and asked me to help him bury a squirrel he’d just killed. He’d killed it accidentally, of course.
It only turned out that I knew him after we’d finished burying it. And then he drove off, leaving me to ponder what it all meant.
Because it had to mean something. Even after all these years, I remember how surreal and odd the event felt.
I never could figure out what that meaning was, however. And so when I wrote this comic, the original script barely had any dialogue in it.
Even after the artwork came back, I struggled with the words for months, writing and rewriting. Never satisfied with the final result. Before finally settling on what you’ve just read above.
But I really doubt that’s it. I think I’ll be rewriting this for years to come.
I’m Iqbal Ali. A graphic novelist and writer. Find more about me and my work on my site iqbala.com. Meanwhile, at the same time that I am happening, Priscilla Grippa is being an awesome artist in Italy.
