The Necrophilic Landscape is an assemblage of rescued online work by the late artist Morgan Vogel (née Caroline Bren) that has been reformatted for print.  It presents a weird, cryptic, obscure, and absurd vision of late capitalism that is part William Burroughs's Wild Boys, and part Henry Darger's "Story of the Vivian Girls" (with soundtrack provided by Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young).  The panels alternate between text-heavy and text-free, with each accompanied by densely drawn art that is engaged in a heroic struggle to articulate that which the text cannot, leaving it up to the reader to forge the necessary synthesis of meaning.

Includes several photographs, a brief text by the author, and an "afterwards" by editor, Raighne Hogan.

Added bonus:  provides readers with a new twist on the epithet "dickhead" that won't be soon forgotten.

8" x 8" | 48 pages | B & W  (w/ color photographs)

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After a long hiatus... 2dCloud's flagship anthology, Mirror Mirror is back, this time with the intent of a more frequent publication schedule and at a notably lower price point.  There's a lot packed into this 72 page issue, all of which is new (at least to us).  Comics, manga, interviews, reviews and an illustrated essay, in black & white and full color, as called for by the material.  There's also a lot of trauma being unpacked here.  The work is solid and engaging, but also heavy – as evidenced by the front cover's detailed colored pencil rendering of the 9/11 catastrophe.

Here's the official 2dCloud description, which provides the details:

Mirror Mirror 4 is mercurial in breadth and temperament. Containing comics by Morgan Vogel, Henry McClellan, Alex Graham — including a comics interview by Nick Merlock Jackson with CocoJoey. An illustrated personal essay by Inés Estrada. Interviews with Decadence (Stathis Tsemberlidis and Lando), and another one from 2016 between Morgan Vogel and Jail. Reviews by Meeks Morpus, Brianna Perry, Koen de Rooij. Manga by Junichiro Saito. Covers, incidentals by Kristina Tzekova. 

Publishing is mythological, sculptural. Mirror Mirror began as a series in 2016 where it’s main conceit was each volume would receive its own direction and editor; Blaise Larmee in ’16; Sean T. Collins + Julia Gfrörer in ’17; Plum in ’20. At the very edge of 2025, 2dcloud’s flagship publication returns as a hybrid anthology — a magazine. Edited by Airplane Mode. Now planned to be released 3 times a year.

This compact curated object with it's incidental links between creators, presents strange rhythms and anti-social fixations. It is in search of some transcendent moment — a piece of liberating information.

Dedicated to Morgan Vogel, 1986–2020