Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine

Nick Potter's Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine is a collection of experimental graphic works and comics poetry, mixing lyrical comics with abstract, conceptual works.

As it's name suggests, Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine is an explosive new collection overflowing with powerful art.

In these collected works, readers will find more traditionally-minded comics as well as abstract and conceptual works. Taken together, the work finds kinship with contemporary avant-cartoonists like Warren Craghead, Aidan Koch, and Simon Moreton, while striking out toward something altogether new.

Readers and comics enthusiasts looking for surprising, challenging, and affecting new work will love Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine.

Parts of this collection have appeared in Devil's Lake, TYPO Magazine, The Offing, PANK Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Big Other, Horse Less Review, Heavy Feather Review, among others.

This collection also features a bespoke interview with the artist at then end of the book, delving deeper into the craft, influences, and life behind their work.

NICK FRANCIS POTTER is a writer, cartoonist, and educator living in Columbia, Missouri. He is the author of New Animals, winner of the Subito Press Prize for Innovative Prose, published in 2016. His prose and comics have been featured in Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review, Sleepingfish, Caketrain, Fourteen Hills, The Chattahoo-chee Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among many others. He is the comics editor forANMLY (formerly Drunken Boat).He has an MFA from Brown University and a PhD in English from the University of Missouri, where he currently teaches writing and theory in the Digital Storytelling Program.