Book One · Drowning at Black Hymn · in the works
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The Story
Everything a new reader needs. Nothing past the town limits.
— The series
Gravestone Girl
An original gothic-horror graphic novel series, written and drawn by Phil Davis. It follows Eliza Draycott (twenty-one, deathrock to the bone, and a working supernatural investigator) into the places that would rather stay buried.
She doesn’t travel alone. There’s the Mourner, a 1960 Cadillac Superior Crown hearse that’s as much a character as anyone with a pulse.
— Book One
Drowning at Black Hymn
Black Hymn, Minnesota. Population 837. The book opens on a frozen highway: the Mourner mid-turn, a road sign reading BLACK HYMN 13 MI.
It’s a lake town, and Lake Mourne sets the terms. The people here come in four kinds: the ones born here, the ones who came and stayed, the ones who commute out, and the ones who live closest to the water.
You’ll get to know its corners: Kerrigan’s Auto Repair, the BELLWETHER record shop, the Sunday Morning bar, The Last Gas(p), Dead Pines Cemetery, the public library and the waterfront.
— The sound
Music is structure
Post-punk, deathrock and industrial records run through Gravestone Girl: on the Mourner’s radio, in the bins at BELLWETHER, and under everything else. The songs aren’t set dressing. They carry story.
Book One is being drawn now
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Gravestone Girl
An original gothic-horror graphic novel series by Phil Davis. Published by BOMBpop13.
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