Potato Nose is amazing. The drawings, as always, are so visceral and simultaneously beautiful, no matter what you are drawing – glass, water, muscle, blood – and each page is so layered with texture and color and space. There are several pages which are especially rich – the atrium of the hospital, the translucent foetus, the cutaway drawing of the head. I love the idea of a comic as medical record – I think this is revelatory – and I think there are comics/graphic medicine workshops that hint at this as a practice but this is really the first full-blooded iteration of that idea that I’ve seen. – Bishakh Som

There are so many things that strike me about this, that I don’t even know where to begin. Also maybe it feels so utterly personal I almost feel voyeuristic reading it. Like I’m actually not supposed to be there. Like I’ve snuck into your diary.  On one hand that feeling is really confrontational and on the other hand I feel really privileged. It’s also really familiar — like looking in the mirror and seeing only a caricature of what you think are your worst qualities.  Maybe it’s even a tiny bit hard to read because the personal bits are so raw that it’s painful in a way we can all relate to. But that pain is also experienced retrospectively — like we’ve already succeeded in moving through it and come out the other side stronger and maybe even see the beauty in it…  The images are beautiful. Every single page could be a painting in a museum. They parallel the story but tell almost a different story. Filling in darker blanks but also some lighter ones. Like dancers and blueberries against scars and diagnostic imagery. – Dan S.

Huge thank you’s to Julian Bowers for scanning and database and to Club Card for their incredible help on graphic design and printing . And thank you to my Kickstarter backers!

Potato Nose: Narratio Retrógrada is a 24-page, autobiographical, self-published, midi-size comic with a limited print run. In the comic, the story begins in 2026 and moves backward through carefully chosen life markers, ending in 1977. This project serves as the prologue to the much larger work, Potato Nose: 1977 (Potatisnäsa: 1977).