Uptight #5 Tom Humberstone Drae Upshaw

Drae Upshaw

“An inverted coming of age story about understanding queer identity and what happens to the stories you never tell

• Jax Amboy is the star athlete who is beloved by an entire galaxy

This comic is a short story reflection upon my relationship with anxiety

He clings to his faith and family through letters with his sister

Uptight #5 Tom Humberstone Drae UpshawBy Jordan Crane. Published by Fantagraphics. Softcover, 112 pages, B&W and 2 Colour, 2016. A disappearing girlfriend and an outer space repairman populate this solo cartoonist anthology, drawn in a way the evokes mid century Modern design movements such as Bauhaus, Constructivism, and neoplasticism. In this 80 page volume, Jordan Crane draws us in with two gripping and wrenching stories, one of the mundane, and the other of the fantastic. First, there