Local Creators Explore the History of Iranian Revolution in a Comic About Talking Fish
By Rich Griset/(Richmond) Style Weekly
You know those people who always talk about the great projects they want to work on, but never do? James Moffitt doesn’t like those people.
“I kept encountering people who had a lot to say about creating stuff and these big ideas for stories or art pieces or comic books, but never actually doing anything about it,” he says. “That really frustrated me, because I’d get really excited about a lot of these ideas, but they’d fizzle out.”
This annoyance led Moffitt to co-found Sink/Swim Press in 2009, which will see the release of its 14th and 15th publications Saturday at Gallery5. One is Dashiell Kirk’s “Consumption,” the story of a tiny centipede trapped on top of a hamburger as it’s eaten by a boy. The other is the third installment of “The Little Red Fish,” a political allegory inspired by Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” using fish and cranes to represent the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Editor's note: Moffitt and Khodabandeh run the Comic Creator Expo, which is this Saturday in Richmond from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
