Wright's bestiary
Wright’s phantasmagoric narrative is part waking dream-- studded with pill bottles, oxygen tanks, and medical bills--and part bestiary. The author’s crowded panels use dramatic blocks of black, white, and grey, with saturated oranges and blues that seem to leap off the page. His aesthetics evoke the Marvel universe: a world of shadowy alleyways, exaggerated sound effects, and ominous clouds. His pages are populated with impossibly muscular bodies, half-human and half-animal, tense with unexpressed resentments and an implied potential for violence. Wright represents himself as a blue minotaur, and his father as a curmudgeonly rhinoceros; the trailer perches atop a rocking, crimson-colored elephant. Other characters in the story also take animal forms from the neck up. In this world, bears and sea turtles are social workers. A corpulent pig stands in as an avatar for the tobacco industry.