Julia Gfrörer

Julia Gfrörer‘s work has appeared in Kramer’s Ergot and Best American Comics. She pronounces her name “gruh fare” but you can say it however you like. In Vision (Fantagraphics), Julia Gfrörer explores lust, grief, and the human need for connection in this story of a 19th-century spinster and the haunted mirror that offers an escape from her frustrated line. In Gfrörer’s thin, careworn lines, her debased and unnerving depictions of the supernatural, and her achingly vulnerable characters, she exposes the emotions that boil beneath the surface of everyday life and the terrible pressure society exerts to keep them hidden. Publishers Weekly praised Gfrörer as “one of the foremost contemporary horror cartoonists with this dense and disturbing psychological twist on the haunted house story.”