Lola: A Ghost Story Jon Allen one part Edvard Munch

one part Edvard Munch

aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution

but no one could render it like she does

and the glossy-magazine presentation frames the stories in an interesting way

His latest comic captures the optimistic glow of utopian imagination with a late-capitalism sting of irony

Lola: A Ghost Story Jon Allen one part Edvard MunchBy J. Torres & Elbert Or. Published by Oni Press. Softcover, 112 pages, Monochrome, 2009 Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmothera woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man eating ogres in trees. Farmhouses haunted by wraiths. Even pigs