{"product_id":"precious-rubbish-kayla-e-hardcover","title":"Precious Rubbish -- Kayla E., Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2025 Ignatz Award WINNER Outstanding Graphic Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2025 International Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA New York Public Library's Top Ten Comic and Graphic Novel of 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBooklist Top 10 Graphic Biographies \u0026amp; Memoirs of 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCartoonist Studio Prize for Long-Form Comics 2026 NOMINEE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I've finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.\" Kayla E.'s \u003cem\u003ePrecious Rubbish\u003c\/em\u003e is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children's comics and tells the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest. The author's childhood is portrayed as a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the work is concerned with violence and a particularly Texan brand of Pentecostal fanaticism, it is presented in a playful visual language with a deadpan humor that elevates the material beyond mere graphic memoir. Precious Rubbish is a landmark work of comics storytelling and graphic medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe debut graphic novel from artist Kayla E., \u003cem\u003ePrecious Rubbish\u003c\/em\u003e asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the challenge of trauma recollection. The reader is invited to co-labor in the meaning-making process, an exercise that facilitates an intimacy (between the author, the subject, and the reader) that is at once horrifying and hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kayla E.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\/8\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.97 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.67\" H x 7.48\" L x 0.77\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781683969280\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812652155179,"sku":"9781683969280","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781683969280_859d2a9a-030e-4a69-ba16-bac4249846e6.jpg?v=1780337067","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/precious-rubbish-kayla-e-hardcover","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}