by Mark Ricketts
The Concept: Dig this, daddy-o!  A 1950s Greenwich Village beatnik seeks love and spiritual enlightenment, but instead finds himself embroiled in a mystery involving a murdered exotic dancer, a thrill-killing mobster, a hopped-up bebop jazz drummer, a ruthless Hollywood starlet, and a crooked cop.  This cat is on an espresso-fueled, riffs-n-stiffs, one-way trip to nowheresville, baby! SC, 7x10, 192pg, b&w

Visual artist(s): Mark Ricketts