Cicatrix Beehive Books and Ripley are five rad

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and into a day at the fantasy market that neither of them will forget

Boys become friends

(The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them

and a searing account of childhood trauma—a dizzying

Cicatrix Beehive Books and Ripley are five radBy Elle. Published by Silver Sprocket. Softcover, 48 pages, Colour, 2022. A powerful study in introspection, inheritance, and the manifestation of hypochondria by a talented indie cartoonist. Beautifully illustrated and poignantly told, the author investigates the guilt they carry as a young Filipino person born into a family that benefited from the Marcos regime, and how that materializes within the physical body.