Spiral and Other Stories by Aidan Koch. $24.95, 208 pages, full color.

I've been following Aidan Koch's work since her earliest zines. Anyone who read her mini comic Warmer well over a decade ago knew instantly that Koch was someone who saw something about what comics could do beyond what anyone else in her generation saw. Often imitated, but never equaled, here is a collection of stories by this singular artist that can be pointed to as the present and future of comics....and also, more importantly, read with great feeling.