A DIRT ROAD FANTASY SET IN THE ARKANSAS OZARKS

BACKWOOD FOLK IS A CONTINUING COMIC SERIES BY GUSTAV CARLSON FOLLOWING THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF RESIDENTS (BOTH LIVING AND DEAD) OF THE RURAL HAMLET OF PO’DUNK, ARKANSAS.

ISSUE ONE: WAKE UP MOCKINGBIRD, STAY AWHILE

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Benedict Carpenter has returned to his home in the Ozarks after twelve years in The City. The small town of Po’Dunk, Arkansas is very much the one he remembered. Down to the ghost stories that he told himself were just a youthful fiction. Can he find his footing in the hills again? Does he even want to? Maybe the last twelve years didn’t change much in the Ozarks, but change is coming on his heels. For both the living and the dead.

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ISSUE TWO: DRY COUNTY SPIRITS

Lilian Vaughan is drowning. When it isn’t being a single mother to Cub it’s running a fully operational dairy farm all by herself. When it isn’t either of those it’s dealing with Po’Dunk’s Dead. And this Sunday morning, the here and hereafter intersect at the Po’Dunk Farmer’s Market where Lilian learns her dairy products are less desired than her ability to commune with the dead. 

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