Growing the Living in the Land. Weird Ecology in Rob Guillory’s Comic Farmhand
Growing the Living in the Land. Weird Ecology in Rob Guillory’s Comic Farmhand

Summary/Abstract: Weird tales are rooted in gothic, science and speculative fictions but they also engage real science. Rob Guillory’s comics series Farmhand (2018–ongoing) depicts a discordant relationship between science, perception and ideology through themes related to contemporary farming and bioengineering. This article explores how Guillory’s comic utilises weird qualities through realism, creation of atmosphere, and the use of layout and seriality. Further, this analysis considers the ways in which the comics form enables open-ended and multi-perspective storytelling. Weird devices invite a questioning, reflective but unresolved engagement with contemporary issues, which enables Guillory’s comics to imaginatively reconsider normative social structures, ideologies, and the frames which reinforce them.

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