It’s been almost fourteen years since Tin Can Forest’s book Baba Yaga and the Wolf submerged readers into a dream-logic-driven tale rooted in Slavonic folklore.
The newly published The New Adventures of Baba Yaga and the Wolf peeks into a meditative day-in-the-life of Baba Yaga as she cultivates stinging nettle in the company of demon and witch neighbours.
The beautifully printed limited edition comic’s small square format and accordion fold cover feel like a sly Wiccan riff on a book of hours. Artists Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek’s blend of poetic narrative, character drawings, intricate symbol and pattern design are both deeply layered in meaning, while keeping a loose punk-rock on a Sunday morning feeling. If Samuel Beckett dropped acid over brunch with soviet cartoonists, Gogol Bordello and several witches you might walk away with a similar vibe to The New Adventures of Baba Yaga and the Wolf.
This is Tin Can Forest’s seventh book after Pohadky (Drawn & Quarterly 2008), Baba Yaga and the Wolf (2010 Toyama Press), Wax Cross (2012 Toyama Press), Cabbage in a Nutshell (2014 Tin Can Forest Press), We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians (with Geoff Berner, 2015 Tin Can Forest Press), and What Is A Witch (with Pam Grossman, 2016 Tin Can Forest Press).
Check out their art and books at tincanforest.com and join the community at the Tin Can Forest’s Patreon.
Also, check out our past interviews with Tin Can Forest:
Wax Cross Book Review & Interview (2013)
Tin Can Forest Interview (2010)
