Rescue Party

“Rescue Party charts bold fantasies about post-pandemic days in wildly ranging imagery and colors, from simple doodles to intricate designs, from psychedelic neon to stark black and white.”—Poets & Writers“Rescue Party is a chronicle of the ebb and flow of how an epic event was lived across many countries, but it is also an ode to the power of art and comics to capture a moment and to crystallize the wish for a better world.”—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker“A head-spinning variety and breadth of visual invention incredibly housed in a single anthology. This stunning, kaleidoscopic assemblage of comics captures a time and an experience, somehow both individually and collectively … The fragments form an epic.”—Ivan Brunetti, cartoonist, illustrator, comics scholar, and author of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice“One of the most essential projects of the earliest days of the COVID pandemic, Rescue Party … made each day just a little better. I’ve been waiting for this collection since its genesis, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally appeared.”—Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University“An invaluable time capsule and an arresting expression of the human condition.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

GABE FOWLER is the founder and owner of Desert Island, one of America’s most beloved independent comics shops. Founded in 2008, Desert Island is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It features a wide variety of underground and alternative comics, zines, artist’s books, graphic novels, and art magazines, including its own quarterly comics tabloid, Smoke Signal. Fowler is also the organizer of Comic Arts Brooklyn, the annual comic book festival and art book fair, which spotlights independent, underground, and alternative comics.