Comics: “Capitalism” by Rebecca Kennedy

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May 4

Written By Dorothy Chan

A large, balding, sweaty white man in heart boxers sits on and smashes the world. His room is covered in food, trash, amazon boxes and dirty underwear. He watches Infowars conspiracy segment on global warming, guzzling soda and scratching himself.

About Rebecca Kennedy

Rebecca Kennedy is an Irish writer and artist. Her fiction has been featured in The Crannog, The Coven, The Old Moore’s Almanac, Fahmidan Journal, Havin’ A Laugh, Brevity Of The Soul, Hidden Channels, and she represented Ireland in The Women in Horror Anthology (Vol.1). In 2020, she was a Participant writer in ‘The New in Three Lines’ project launched by Public Relations Agency Story Lab, and she co-wrote and performed the comedy ‘Quarantine’ alongside Simon Ferris on RTE Radio One’s ‘Keywords’ podcast. Her illustrations have been exhibited in Art Auction, The Model, (2015) Cairde Sligo Visual in The Model, (2019) and Hidden Channels Magazine, Final Cut and TORCH.

Dorothy Chan

Reviews: “Abducted Audiences: Antebellum (2020) and Problems of Trailers” by B.L. Panther

“That day on my way to work I hear a radio story about a pathogenic fungus that fills sex-crazed cicadas with mold to shrivel their abdomen and genitals but not their appetite to fuck”