It's 2002 in rural Rigsby, Wisconsin, and Bethany, searching for stability and an escape from her oppressive family, finds solace in new high school friends. But everyone is struggling beneath the town's idyllic surface, and everything is about to change.
Rigsby, Wisconsin: It's just another nowhere town, but Bethany has finally found some stability here, far from the baleful, watching eyes of her oppressively disapproving mother. Jeordie and Erik are welcoming new friends, and even Anna seems happy to make her feel at home, despite hints of issues even bigger than hers.
Amid the placid, scenic small-town beauty, the teens of Rigsby are roiling with struggles over what might come next, where to turn, and what's standing in their way. And when Bethany and Anna decide to go to the Homecoming dance together, the threads start to unravel.
SE Case's painfully beautiful Rigsby WI saga is a bracing, refreshingly genuine tale of life on the cusp of something new. And it all starts here.
About the Author :
SE Case is an illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Minnesota with her husband, daughter, and dog. Rigsby WI is inspired in part by the people she has met and places she has lived in the upper Midwest, including the Wisconsin Northwoods and Driftless areas.
Review :
"There's a subtle, tragic irony about entering into the springtime of adulthood in a place with the derelict atmosphere of a permanent autumn. Rigsby is everything sweet, sad, and infuriating about that. It's also funny, perfectly complemented by its textured palettes, and populated by the kinds of troubled, complicated characters who - if you grew up in a certain kind of nowhere town - you'd swear you must have known at some point. I've seldom seen something captured with such lovely and moving genuineness." -- Tracy Butler (Lackadaisy)
"RIGSBY, WI is an unflinching, frank, and thoroughly compassionate reflection on life in transition between both youth and adulthood and between the 20th and 21st centuries. Case skillfully explores social class, familial bonds, and trauma through the relatable and completely believable cast of characters." -- E.K. Weaver (Shot and Chaser, TJ and Amal)
"Packs an especially emotional punch." -- WOMEN WRITE ABOUT COMICS
"A hard-hitting slice-of-life comic that tackles a range of social issues while paying homage to the cultural touchstones of early 2000s." -- TINTED EDGES
--Tracy Butler "author of Lackadaisy"
