Motherless Child

    (Kitchen Sink, 1992)
™ and ©1992 Thom Webb Scott III

This black-and-white one-shot is a requiem of sorts—a girl now grown remembering her favorite uncle Kenny. Kenny was the sort of person who couldn’t live without his mother. He was an ex-marine who was terrified of being alone in the world. The unnamed narrator talks of the good times they’d had together growing up, the girlfriend that Kenny loved for seven years but could never seem to marry, the terrible accident that left him with a brain aneurysm, turning him mean…and the final accident which took him away forever.

Artist/Writer Thom Webb Scott did a fine job of making the characters real and memorable. By story’s end you feel as if they were people you knew—which makes it all the sadder when you see them go.
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