Lavender Jack Volume 1

“The visuals are refreshing in their simplicity: solid black shadows and big swooping curves that still make it easy to tell characters apart. Every major character has very different faces and body types, and in cases where characters do look similar, it’s usually intentional and pays off later. Jenn Manley Lee’s limited color palette makes each episode feel unified and pulled together. The lettering is stylish and sleek as well.”—Masha Zhdanova (REVIEW: The Women of Lavender Jack, Women Write About Comics)“While the characters of Lavender Jack certainly shine well on their own and I would eat up an episodic serial of these people running around solving smaller-scale mysteries, another strong point for this comic is its continuity and worldbuilding. Everything that happens over the course of the narrative has a very clear cause and effect and Schkade does a fantastic job at foreshadowing future plot points and weaving in believable consequences for the choices characters make.”—Gillian Thomson (Lavender Jack by Dan Schkade – WebToon Review!, Comic Book Herald)“One of the biggest draws is how layered it all is. Both Lavender Jack and Ferrier are complicated and fully fleshed out characters, which makes you more invested in the story from the beginning.”—Deanna Destito (A Year of Free Comics: Who is really the villain in LAVENDER JACK?, Comics Beat)

Dan Schkade (SHKAH-dee, rhymes with ‘body’) is a freelance cartoonist from Austin, Texas. His credits include the ongoing daily Flash Gordon syndicated newspaper strip, the Eisner + Ringo Award-Nominated Lavender Jack, Will Eisner’s The Spirit Returns, San Hannibal, and Saint John, among others. He’s a member-at-large of the comic creator collective Helioscope. He lives in the Midwest with his girlfriend, cartoonist Jackie Crofts, and their cat.

Jenn Manley Lee is an artist, designer, and cartoonist with over a couple of decades of experience. Over the course of her career, she’s worked with design agencies, publishers, and individual clients on a wide variety of work, including icons and information graphics, layout and presentations, as well as illustrations, photo retouching, and more. She also art-directed a monthly arts and culture publication, as well as writing and illustrating various pieces within. In comics, she might be best known for the long-running and well-acclaimed webcomic Dicebox, as well as coloring work for a number of cartoonists, such as Carla Speed McNeil, Dylan Meconis, Dan Schkade and Hope Larson. Though she grew up in New Jersey, she’s lived all of this century (so far) in Portland, Oregon, with her spouse, Kip Manley, and a number of assorted cats. They were joined by their daughter, Taran, and so continue on, cats and all.

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