“It was easy enough to hate myself without a smartphone.”
Haunting words from Danielle Shorr’s Perfect World, a thoughtful meditation on beauty standards and the media messages bombarding the modern young mind. Shorr’s distinctive visual style wields the tools of graphic storytelling with the precision of a plastic surgeon—cutting thru self-perception, identity, and the quiet injuries we inflict upon ourselves in response to societal expectations. Her work offers not just critique but compassion and an urgent final message.
In Death Vision, Ryan Hunter casts himself as the reluctant protagonist of a superhero origin story, his “power” the unbearable gift of knowing death’s inevitability. The narrative spirals through grief, child abuse, PTSD, and addiction, tracing a life shadowed by mortality. Yet, in an audacious twist, Death itself becomes a life coach—a grim but gentle guide leading toward a revelation. What begins as a descent into despair becomes, by its close, an acceptance of life’s fragile poignant truths.
Drai Whitted
Graphic Lit Editor
Drai Whitted is the Secretary on the Board and serves as Digital Media Editor at Solstice Literary Magazine where he painstakingly formats each issue among other contributions. He is also a designer and artist and has kickstarted a new genre for the mag with Graphic Lit featuring comic storytelling and other forms of sequential art including comic poetry and experimental works.
