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“I’m Most Interested in Characters that Are Not So Easily Written Off as Only Good or Only Bad” – Beth Hetland Blurs the Lines in Body Horror in ‘Tender’ from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 9, 2024

Shocking, thrilling and intriguing, Beth Hetland’s Tender, a psychological thriller from Fantagraphics, erupted onto the comics scene earlier this year, both startling and delighting horror lovers, and cementing Hetland as…

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Tender – Beth Hetland’s Body Horror from Fantagraphics is Completely Horrifying, Completely Disturbing and Completely Brilliant

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 25, 2024

The cover of Beth Hetland’s Tender from Fantagraphics is exactly the kind of artwork a reader wants to see before diving into a psychological thriller. In stark yellow, pink and…

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