The Horrible Truth About Comics

James Kochalka’s The Horrible Truth About Comics is a single-issue meditation from Alternative Comics, published in 1999. Written and drawn entirely by Kochalka, it distills his famously playful, philosophical approach into a brief, self-contained statement on the medium’s nature and purpose. While a short run, this comic stands as a concentrated artifact of a creator who helped define the indie-comics sensibility of the era.