Bayou Vol 1.
by Jeremy Love
I read Bayou Vol. 1 while it was still available online via Zuda comics and was blown away.
This is the story of Lee Wagstaff, a little African-American girl living in the South in the 30's. This alternate reality South is populated not only by the real people and tensions of our world, but by the gods and monsters bred by them. After Lee's friend, Lily, a little white girl, goes missing and Lee's father is wrongly beaten and imprisoned for it, she goes on a quest to save him. For Lee knows a secret... it wasn't her father who stole away Lily, it was the spirits of the Otherworld who inhabit the nearby swamp that took her away.
And so little Lee Wagstaff heads into the frightening unknown world of the bayou, where she meets a staunch friend and ally, the gentle giant named after the Bayou itself and, like Alice, she goes through the looking glass into a wo... Read More
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