Prose by Chris Fink
Drawings by John Porcellino

Chris Fink’s collection of short prose, Forage Like a Bear, contains a whole lot: whistling acorns, scribbling clams, gossipy geese, technicolor ducks, turkeys (including human ones), roving bands of chipmunks, chimneys, fires, chainsaws, lice, thin ice, approximately 30,000 blueberries, cars rolling uphill, the leaves of a mulberry tree drifting down, Peace Trail meanders, and maybe just maybe, a holy grail morel.

And all related in Fink’s gently shimmed sentences, adapted from radio dispatches, and illustrated with the inky grace of John Porcellino.

Chris Fink is a professor of English at Beloit College and editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal. He is the author of two collections of short stories, Farmer’s Almanac: A Work of Fiction (Emergency Press, 2013, 2023) and Add This to the List of Things That You Are (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). He is a regular contributor to Northern Public Radio.

John Porcellino has been writing, drawing, and publishing comics and graphic novels for over thirty years. His celebrated autobiographical comix series King-Cat (Spit and a Half; also available from Drawn & Quarterly in omnibus form), begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists.