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DEBUT of A TURN FOR THE WORSE at Brooklyn Independant Comic Expo
Strong Bones Studio is an independent animation and art collective based in New York City, founded by Creative Director Mike Ricca. The studio is a flexible network of directors, animators, and storytellers collaborating from NYC to LA to Europe to create dynamic, artist-driven work.
Alongside our animation projects, Strong Bones publishes independent comics and anthologies, providing a platform for working production artists to create short-form comics and narrative print work.
Our anthology A Turn for the Worse brings together artists exploring strange twists, dark humor, and stories at the edge of imagination. Volume 2 releases this April at BICS, and Strong Bones publications are carried in shops across the country including Forbidden Planet (NYC), Books With Pictures (Portland), and Vault of Midnight (Detroit).
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“A Turn for the Worse” is the first anthology from Strong Bones Studio; an animation and art collective out of NYC. We are excited to present our first group anthology!
9 NEW stories ending in disaster.
A Turn for the Worse is a standard graphic novel size, perfect bound, two tone anthology exploring the page break as a narrative device. Printed in April 2025, we debuted at Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase and are excited to get it out into the world.
Printed at Fireball Printing in Philadelphia, PA
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Debuting this April at the Brooklyn Independent Comic Expo: our second anthology, featuring seven new stories at the edge of imagination..
Featuring comics from
Eric Hosford
Todd McArthur
Tory Sica
Jhowee Chiang
Dan McCool
Pat Barrett
Lena Green
Mike Ricca
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A Vision of Blood Meridian
A Vision of Blood Meridian
is a 24-page illustrated storybook adapted from a passage in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Through stark imagery and desolate landscapes, it renders a vision of the Southwest steeped in bewilderment, violence, and the quiet majesty of ruin.
Illustrated by Mike Ricca and printed with care at Fireball Printing in Philadelphia, this edition transforms McCarthy’s prose into a visual meditation on beauty, brutality, and the ghostly silence that lingers after.
