Sara Ryan

Click: Why Battle Hall Davies won’t be attending any high school reunions.

This short story, illustrated by Dylan Meconis, takes place between the prose novels Empress of the World and The Rules for Hearts. Both the comic and the novels feature Battle, and one of the supporting characters in the comic is Katrina from the Eisner-nominated short story Me and Edith Head.

Reviews:

…perfectly pegged the rise and fall of a friendship. …Ryan’s works in prose as well as sequential art (and there’s quite a few of both) have proven that she’s equally adept at both mediums, and quite frankly, Click is the sort of comic that we need more of. –Greg McElhatton, Read About Comics

…Ryan really does excel in this format – she takes a simple, emotional
event, she makes her point simply and elegantly, and then she stops. In
an era where everyone wants to make graphic novels, it’s good to be
reminded of the real potential of the short story. There’s a lot to
cover in this issue – it spans a period of weeks – but through judicious
pacing and montage, Ryan fits it all in and makes it seem effortless.
God, she’s good. She has great taste in artists, as well. Dylan Meconis draws
wonderfully expressive characters, and fills the panels with the sort of
detail that fills out their world. The first two pages are particularly
beautiful. Apparently she’s done some graphic novels before, none of
which ring a bell with me, but she’s clearly a great talent. Ah, it makes me so happy to review something that’s really, really good. Rating: A+ — Paul O’Brien, The X-Axis