Holy Moly

    (Fantagraphics, 2004)
™ and © 2004 Leah Hayes

Imagine a publisher such as Fantagraphics grabbed your old “composition” book filled with your doodles from high school and published it for the mainstream audience. This would approximate what happened for Leah Hayes and her “comic book” Holy Moly. Designed to resemble a composition book, Hayes goes so far to include blue writing lines in the design, but don’t let the book’s look fool you. Holy Moly is really an original work and interesting for its design merits, although not its plot.

— Mark Arnold
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