CARTOONSHOW HC WILL EISNER The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element

ALL-DIFFERENT POINT ONE #1

A memoir ruminating on memory and place and the people who pass through his life

an epic fable to the dimensions of world-building

But their attempts to take down the beast are in vain when it makes its way for land

CARTOONSHOW HC WILL EISNER The Fifth ElementCartoonist and animator Derek M. Ballard makes modern American family comics. It's not his fault that being a single parent in America is kind of a nightmare. Derek is a solo parent raising three kids in the American South, while trying to make art. Told in a series of free flowing and often hilarious comic essays, Cartoonshow gets to the heart of the struggle to be a creative person in a society that doesn't value anything other than how much it can