SA/VS Exejetick Eye

EXEJETICK EYE: The Temple Complex Serpent Mural, JT Dockery

J.T. Dockery is a cartoonist whose works include In Tongues Illustrated (2008), Spud Crazy (2011, with Nick Tosches), DESPAIR, volumes 1–3 (2013-15), and Juanita and the Frog Prince (2020, with Ed McClanahan).  His adaptations of Stephen Crane poems from The Black Riders and Other Lines in volume 1 of DESPAIR were recognized in the annual "Notable Comics" list by series editor Bill Kartalopoulos in The Best American Comics 2014.  Bob Levin wrote in The Comics Journal, reviewing DESPAIR vol. 2, "Dockery’s roads map the South beyond Gothic into the teratogenic. They extend the polite dreams of the Surrealists into preternatural nightmare. You laugh here – and immediately consider critical self-examination." Furthermore, Dockery, born in 1976, saw Argento's Suspiria on VHS in the 1980s, and he's never quite been the same since.