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This Week’s Article: William Goldsmith
Posted: February 20, 2011

Whole worlds and even entire universes can spring from the pens and minds of comic artists - after all, the imagination needs no special effects budget. Sometimes, though, a city is more than enough. This is true of William Goldsmith, an upcoming British graphic storyteller born in Athens, who is imagining his own ‘bleak but whimsical’ metropolis named Ystov. Located in an unspecified East European state, Ystov is ‘translated only very roughly’ as Y-Town, its name derived from being founded at the fork of a river. Its buildings and streets provide the linked settings for Goldsmith’s two-page tales about the city’s eccentric citizens, or Ystovians, collected as Vignettes of Ystov. Read the full article here…
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