Big.” He currently works as an editor for a higher-education association. He edited the recently released Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection from Fulcrum Publishing.

Ranging from serious and dramatic to funny and sometimes downright fiendish, these tales bring tricksters back into popular culture in a very vivid form.įrom an ego-driven social misstep in “Coyote and the Pebbles” to the hijinks of “How Wildcat Caught a Turkey” and the hilarity of “Rabbit’s Choctaw Tail Tale,” “Trickster” provides entertainment for readers of all ages and backgrounds.Īlong with compiling and editing the book, artist Matt Dembicki illustrated one of the featured trickster tales.Ĭonspiracy, a comic creators’ collaborative in Washington, DC, and has won acclaim for his nature graphic novel, “Mr. Cartoonist Matt Dembicki is the artist/writer of graphic novels such as the award-winning nature parable Mr. Winnebego historian and storyteller David Lee Smithof Nebraska gives us 'Trickster and the Great Chief.' In this tale, the half-man/half-wolf trickster is up to no good after the Great Chief dies-but he doesnt get away with it Illustrator Jerry Carr, who has a smooth cartoon style, is working on the story. In “Trickster” more than twenty Native American tales are cleverly adapted into comic form.Įach story is written by a different Native American storyteller who worked closely with a selected illustrator, a combination that gives each tale a unique and powerful voice and look. The first graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, “Trickster” brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. In Trickster, 24 Native storytellers were paired with 24 comic artists, telling cultural tales from across America. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself.

All cultures have tales of the trickster–a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief.

Trickster by Matt Dembicki