Prop Comic by Veronica Graham
""Prop Comic" is a feminist reimagining of the classic "Popeye" comic strip, presented in the nostalgic format of a newsprint publication. This comic follows Olive Oyl as she navigates a mirror world stripped of Popeye and his familiar friends. Isolated in a cityscape defined by shifting brick walls, Olive confronts obstacles crafted by a manipulative creator. Each strip offers a poetic twist on the damsel in distress trope, as she stumbles through the complexities of modern existence with animated props and henchmen as her only companions." - Most Ancient
“Through Olive Oyl and 38 pages of unrelenting turmoil and trap doors, Graham is asking you to squint your eyes and pull deep focus on your own self-definition and the world you’ve created for yourself. Is it structural and systematically fortified scaffolding holding it all up or some frayed rope and rusty pulleys? This discombobulating broadsheet can be read as commentary on the danger of being a woman, the danger of living in an ever-changing city, the danger of looking inward so much you come out the other side of the spinach can. I’m doing my best not to project, but here’s what I think Prop Comic is really about. In our lives — you are Olive Oyl, I am Olive Oyl — we potentially face many deaths: of ego, of ambition, of dreams, of dignity. The work is in mustering up just one more resurrection.” - RJ Casey, The Comics Journal
20 pages, approx. 11.5" x 17.5" (folded, HUGE!), black ink on newsprint. Edition of 500, published by Most Ancient, 2025.
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