Photos by Rayne Klar
Graphic Novel Synopsis
Cartoonist Ezra David Mattes casts suitably serious actor Jeremy Strong to play him, as a fearful little kid, in a memoir comic. Special sites in Minneapolis become portals that transport Strong into Ezra’s memories, where he re-enacts horror after horror. When Strong concludes his role and departs for New York City to resume his work on Ezra’s favorite television show, he is unable to stop being Ezra. Only by journeying into a treacherous wasteland — the Zone from the 1979 film Stalker — can Strong hope to separate his identity from the cartoonist for good.