GRIEF: an anthology about struggle and hope for comic fans
The collection was written by me, Frank Gogol, and was drawn, colored, and lettered by some of the most incredibly talented indie creators around (more on them below!). The stories in the collection look at the five stages of grief through the lens of comic book stories and cover a range of genres, including superhero, drama, science-fiction, and horror.
I wrote this collection of stories because it’s the kind of comic book I wish I had had when I was growing up. I’m no stranger to tragedy, and for most of my life, terrible things happening seemed to be the norm for me.
When I was just a year and a half old, my dad passed away from a drug overdose. That same year, my mom entered rehab for addiction for the first time, where she stayed until I was about three years old. A few years later, my step-father was beaten within an inch of his life by drug dealers. At 11-years-old, I watch my mother have a nervous breakdown and sat beside her hospital bed as she screamed through the night. And after that, I didn’t see my mother much until I was 19, and she was lying in a hospital bed again after a driver had run her down and left her for dead on the highway.