HARSH LUNG - COLLECTED STORIES
I have a book coming out, which will launch soon in London. Here’s the blurb:
Saturday 25th February, 7-9pm, Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport St, London WC2H 7JA
Harsh Lung brings together 69 short stories written by artist Luke Drozd. Created over a five-year period, the tiny tales are tinted with sadness and humour, touching on universal human concerns such as love, death, betrayal, cake, skeletons, dead foxes, the vastness of space, bestiality, exquisite fonts, Greek mythological man-beasts treading water on zero-hours contracts in the convenience food sector, and much more. For the launch, Luke has enlisted the help of spoken word & sound-collage duo Reet Maff'l to bring some of these tales to life via improvised, music-backed readings. There will also be a live solo set from multi-instrumentalist Andy Abbott (guitarist in That Fucking Tank, Nope and noisemonger for Reet Maff'l) exploring minimalist ambience and transcendental repetition. There will also be a bar. Harsh Lung – a 178x110mm paperback with screen printed dust-jacket – is the second book of Luke's unillustrated short stories, following 2016's Micro Library release Tiny Idiot. Listen to Reet Maff'l at https://reetmaffl.bandcamp.com/ Listen to Andy Abbott at https://soundcloud.com/zadanzig