True Stories
True Stories recounts the double suicide of my father, Jozef Wojceich Siekiel-Zdzienicki, and his partner, Pauline Ruth Hutson, through eleven vignettes, each evoking a song by my father's favorite band, the Talking Heads. Part graphic novel, part epitaph, part mixtape, this illustrated memoir explores what it means to honor in death the complex people who haunt us in life.
Pen, ink & watercolor; risograph printed book
1st edition of 125 and 2nd edition of 250, 2017
A fundraiser for refugee aid organizations. Please contact me for an original book.
True Stories, 2nd Edition
True Stories cover
True Stories title page
1. [Twice] in a Lifetime
2. Road to Nowhere
3. Can’t Seem to Face Up to the Facts
4. Who Took the Money?
5. People Like Us/Give Me Back My Name
6. Burning down the House
7. Someone’s Talking on My Telephone (Warning Sign)
8. And She Was/The Lady Don’t Mind
9. Puzzlin’ Evidence
10. Heaven
11. Naked
True Stories credits
True Stories back cover