The Scrapbook of Life and Death

Avery Hill Publishing launched this meditative 2024 series, which explores memory and mortality through the intimate frame of a scrapbook. Writer and artist Charles G. Thompson crafts a quiet, surreal narrative that weaves together found objects, personal photographs, and hand-drawn panels to examine how we curate our own histories. The single issue sets a contemplative tone, inviting readers to linger on the fragile, often beautiful intersections between what we keep and what we lose.