THE BIG BOOK OLDSKULL IN THE GARDEN : COMIC STRIPS OF ATHONK

Old Skull in The Garden, What kind of garden? Prison and the marginal spaces where marginal people live up their marginal world with their marginal culture. The margin is quite a black comedy. Smile for them! Smile for creativity in the bottom of civilization…
-Seno Gumira Ajidarma

…tongue-in-cheek outlook, Athonk has made his character take on an unflinching look at the city's seamier underside, a world of police brutality, drug abuse and a vignette on inmates in the province's Cebongan prison. That last part, particularly a news paper clipping on Old Skull's popularity among inmates, struck a note due to its subtle reminders of the 2013 Cebongan prison massacre.

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