Tom Lynch

Four of the best local graphic novelists unite this week--Jeffrey Brown ("Unlikely"), John Hankiewicz (the "Tepid" series), Paul Hornshemeier ("Forlorn Funnies") and Anders Nilsen ("Dogs and Water")--for their second annual "Win, Lose, or Draw" competition, in which the novelists, thankfully, do the drawing and audience members have guessing detail. Brown's newest novel, the funny, idiosyncratic burrito in black-and-white "Bighead," introduces a new hero to the mix of drawn champions and flows as well as other full-lengths. In the first few pieces, Bighead--who Brown draws with an incredibly bulbous noggin, cape, and white hero-suit--fights "two-hundred" ninjas in order to retrieve the Prime Minister of Japan's daughter, Bullman, the "icon of senseless male aggression," and the nerdy, evil genius Mister-Mind, who in the end goes down pretty easy due to Bighead's superior strength. With each author's eagerness to jump feet first into a world of unpredictable illustration, the "Win, Lose, or Draw" will be a true treat.

The Holy Consumption appears on December 17 at Quimby's, 1854 W. North, (773)342-0910, at 8pm. Free.

(2004-12-14)

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