NOW 9: The New Comics Anthology

This ninth issue of *Now* is anchored by the longest story featured in the magazine to date: "Misguided Love," a 40-page autobiographical tour de force by Texas artist Raquelle Jac. Ping-ponging among relationships, hospitalizations, internet "fame," international travel, sex, romance, and trauma, Jac's dense, obsessive pages read like a manifesto, announcing the arrival of a remarkable new voice in comics. This issue also features *Now* debuts from Ethel Wolfe, Hartley Lin (*Young Frances*), and Emil Friis Ernst (*Doctor Murder*), as well as work from *Now* regulars Keren Katz (*The Academic Hour*) and Noah Van Sciver, who homages Basil Wolverton's cult favorite, science-fiction hero, Spacehawk.