9781937541613 • 88 pp • 6 × 8.5” • 2025
“Ash H.G.’s graphic novel EAST DISTRICT evokes Los Bros Hernandez, David Lynch, and Guido Crepax…” —from the foreword by Stefano Gaudiano (KAFKA, DETECTIVE COMICS, and THE WALKING DEAD)
“EAST DISTRICT by Ash H. G. is an eloquently quiet and beautifully disturbing, thought-provoking, and uniquely articulated apocalyptic horror noir comic story that hit me hard and struck deep.” —Farel Dalrymple (POP GUN WAR, THE WRENCHIES)
“Ash H.G.’s raw primal and atmospheric approach weaves a tense web with functional simplicity. Gripping, suspenseful and unsettling – like being caressed by a wooden hand.” —Wilfred Santiago (IN MY DARKEST HOUR, 21: THE STORY OF ROBERTO CLEMENTE)
A genre-bending horror psycho drama; an exploration of fear, spirituality, lust, depraved violence, and mystical force, set in a strangely familiar world.
EAST DISTRICT opens with 3 teen boys, apparently disposing of the body of a battered youth out by the tracks. One of their friends has been missing, but the body’s not hers. “Light as a baby,” says Marvin, dragging the body across the plains, then wrapping it in a trash bag and slinging the bundle over his back. The boys go to a Science teacher, who instructs them to stash the bag in his shed. “I knew Mr.Cobb would understand. He was in the service.” What’s happening inside the chain-link fenced borders of East District?
EAST DISTRICT | ASH H.G.
GIRLS GONE WILD 1 | KATIE LANE
LA PODEROSA 1 | POWERPAOLA
EGIRL MAGAZINE | KATHERINE DEE
NUIE | NUIE
Altcomics Magazine 1
Altcomics Magazine 2
Altcomics Magazine 3
Altcomics Magazine 4
Altcomics Magazine 5
Altcomics Magazine 6
Brothersister
Compact Magazine
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little heart
Mirror Mirror 1 | Blaise Larmee
Mirror Mirror 2 | Sean T. Collins, Julia Gfrörer
Mirror Mirror 3 | Plum
Motherlover | Raighne
Gustave Flaubert Trois Contes | Christopher Adams
Strong Eye Contact | Christopher Adams
Yule Log | Christopher Adams
The Necrophilic Landscape | Tracy Auch
Röhner | Max Baitinger
Vanishing Perspective | Alexis Beauclair
Cavities & Crevices | Archie Bongiovani
Out of Hollow Water | Archie Bongiovanni
Nocturne | Tara Booth
Yearbooks | Nicholas Breutzman
ITDN | Andrew Burkholder
Qviet | Andrew Burkholder
A Tunnel to Another Place | Apolo Cacho
Rudy | Mark Connery
Rudy zine | Mark Connery
Ablatio Penis | Will Dinski
An Honest Performance | Will Dinski
Trying Not To Notice | Will Dinski
Gulag Casual | Austin English
Sec | Margot Ferrick
Yours | Margot Ferrick
Prizon Food part 1 | Joseph Gillette, Eric Schuster
Prizon Food part 2 | Joseph Gillette, Eric Schuster
Salz and Pfeffer | Emilie Gleason
Lost in the Fun Zone | Leif Goldberg
Parc | Jul Gordon
Drone | Simon Hanselmann
Detrimental Information | John + Luke Holden
Fluorescent Mud | Eli Howey
Arthur Turnkey 1 | Toby Jones
Architecture of an Atom | Juliacks
Frozengirl | Iku Kawaguchi
Copy Kitty | Kyung-Me
3 Books | Blaise Larmee
2001 | Blaise Larmee
Comets Comets | Blaise Larmee
Dragon's Breath | MariNaomi
It Felt Like Nothing | Fifi Martinez
Sprawling Heart | Sab Meynert
How it Happened | Jason T. Miles
Well Come by Erik Nebel
100 | nou
Retreat | Jaakko Pallasvuo
Perfect Hair | Tommi Parrish
Virus Tropical | Powerpaola
I Don't Hate Your Guts | Noah Van Sciver
Wander Maunder | Justin Skarhus
Things You Carry | Vincent Stall
Extended Play | Jake Terrell
Summer Carnival | Jake Terrell
Startled Maggie | Maggie Umber
Sound of Snow Falling | Maggie Umber
The Necrophilic Landscape | Morgan Vogel
Someone Please Have Sex With Me | Gina Wynbrandt
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