Damnation Diaries

Winner: MoCCA Award of Excellence RINGO Awards Nomination: Best Artist New York Public Libraries Best Comics of 2023 List In hell, everyone can hear you scream, but only one person listens. Hell can get you down. Its big, hot, often painful, and a hard place to get creative projects done. But something else is bothering inmate PKRx354something beyond the unrelenting and often absurd torture routines, the demons, or the tormenting trio of his mother, father, and girlfriend also consigned to the Underworld. Luckily, theres help: Fred GreenbergHells only psychotherapist. With Freds stoic and perceptive guidance, the talking cure proves productive. That is, until a dastardly terrorist act by a mysterious faction threatens the very nature of the Underworld. Will our self-deprecating hero get to the cause of his nagging ennui? Will Fred find his own redemption? And will our hero ever find peace, or at least a vacation? Combining Dante, Douglas Adams, and Freud, Damnation Diaries is equal parts horror comedy and character-driven drama, uniquely converging the look of bronze-age comics with sharp literary satire. The books imaginative and surreal landscape serves as a perfect backdrop for caustic social commentary that fits our equally surreal times. The setting may be imaginary, but the urgent issues addressed are not: growing economic inequality, student debt, political crisis, terrorism, and the attempt to find peace under the most hostile of circumstances.