Eisner Award Nominee forBest Webcomic
"A special look at becoming who you want to be." - FREAK SUGAR
"Packs an especially emotional punch." -WOMEN WRITE ABOUT COMICS
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 :
"A special look at becoming who you want to be." -- FREAK SUGAR
"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
"Case has brought to life four characters who will make you laugh, cry, yell and ultimately remember what life was like when you knew everything and nothing at the same time." -- SMASH PAGES
"Interweaving plotlines capture the complexity and drama of the teenage years from multiple perspectives. A swirl of school, family, medications, unrequited love, and petty theft, the story is at turns funny and touching." -- FOREWORD
"High schoolers in the early aughts contend with issues of race, weight, and sexuality in Case's sympathetic debut." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"The pacing is quick, and their story is engrossing, mostly because they will remind adult readers of their own youth." -- NO FLYING, NO TIGHTS
--Tracy Butler "author of Lackadaisy"
