 Published in 1992, it's Blanche Goes to New York by Rick Geary. Set in 1907, it's the story of a young woman from an unnamed prairie town who moves to New York City on her own to study piano. The text is written in the form of a series of letters that she writes home. She talks about all the new and amazing things that she's seeing. The setting is a perfect opportunity for Geary to show off his unique penchant for Victorian and Edwardian detail. Blanche also encounters all sorts of people she'd never seen or heard of before or even imagined in some cases. She stays in a large boarding house where her piano teacher lives along with a number of other unique eccentrics. And she's kept awake at night by strange sounds and disturbing music coming from somewhere deep within the house. One night she's had enough and she goes exploring and the story falls directly into Lovecraft territory. She says, I cannot begin to describe what I found within except to say it changed my concept of the physical universe. Rick Geary's work is completely unique. He doesn't draw or write like anybody else. Even so, it's very possible to be very much into comics and graphic novels and miss him entirely. Here are some examples of his unique and hilarious work. There were two sequels to Blanche. She also went to Hollywood. It's a book I'd not heard of until I made this video. And in 2001 she also went to Paris. In 2006 Geary published a series of Gumby comics which he created with Bob Burden who I will also have to tell you about sometime.