Things Undone

Despite Rick Watt’s best efforts to keep it together, he feels his life is falling apart, turning him into a zombie. After a cross-country move with girlfriend in tow, his fresh start turns into a festering mess. As a video game artist, Rick is subjected to the incompetence of three bosses and a kinky art director. His overactive imagination helps him cope until… his seven-year relationship tailspins and his ex takes flight with the guy across the parking lot. Other jobs and a new GF don’t look any better. Caught between his fantasy world and reality, Rick decides to pull the trigger.With a foreword by Robert Kirkman, creator of the Walking Dead.

From Booklist

Rick is struggling to balance the demands on his artistic and personal energy by women who want more commitment than he feels comfortable offering, cliquish workmates, and bosses who put conformity above craft. An artist starving for understanding and a place in the everyday world, although not for groceries, Rick has moved to Seattle, where his personal disintegration threatens to turn him into a suicidal zombie. White portrays all this in lively, quirky black-and-orange, bringing the world of game-writing, social dynamics at work and in apartment buildings, and the adoration of a pet cat into delightfully cogent emotional focus while maintaining lines and panels that bounce with humor even in the face of depression. This indie graphic novel has high appeal, especially for Rick’s peers—the young and hip who aren’t as sure of their interpersonal worlds as of their artistic ones. The fantasy element of Rick’s gradual zombification is slyly funny without becoming grotesque. --Francisca Goldsmith

About the Author

Shane Patrick White [b.1970] is an author and illustrator who's works include NORTH COUNTRY (2005), THINGS UNDONE (2009) and BRAUN (2017). He has collaborated on many comics projects including THE OVERMAN (2008) and COMIC BOOK TATTOO (2008). He resides in the Pacific Northwest. More work can be found here: shanewhite.com/ and here studiowhite.com/

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