Five days a week, Jonathan Case comes into Periscope, pulls out a gigantic sheet of 300 series bristol, puts his head down and gets to work drawing a comic you’ve never heard of. A lucky few have acquired the very limited editions he’s self-published of the three chapters, but for the most part, he’s been laboring in total obscurity.

I think it’s time for this obscurity to end. Go and read the first chapter of Sea Freak, “the tale of an atomic sea mutant in 1962 with a hunger for poetry and a taste for human flesh.” The story is creepy and funny and compelling, and the art is drop-dead gorgeous. See if you don’t find yourself wondering, as we all have here at Periscope, how the hell can a guy’s very first work be this insanely good?

Click the link. The time has come for this artist, like his creation, to emerge from the shadowy depths into the light of recognition.

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