The Destructive Artist Volume I: Do You Believe In Magic? Front cover

Graphic memoir · DarkLabStudios

The Destructive Artist

Vol I: Do You Believe In Magic?

The life of a comic that started as self-prescribed art therapy, which ironically grew into its own monster of public marketability, spin-offs, and sales.

  • 138 pages, black & white, hand-drawn
  • A DarkLabStudios production, 2012–2015
  • Collects Issues I–V plus spin-offs & extras
  • Written & drawn by Trevor Burnett
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"The glass is always full-full: with liquid AND air."From the prologue, The Destructive Artist Vol I

Content note: depression and suicidal ideation.

What's inside

  1. Prologue, aka an Elongated Introductioniii
  2. Issue I: Beyond Quality + Quantity7
  3. Issue II: This Is Not a Coaster31
  4. Issue III: An Exagerated Fancy Event55
  5. Spin-offs & Extras67
  6. Issue IV: No One Said It Was Going to Be Easy81
  7. Man of Misery99
  8. Issue V: Life Goes On, or: How I Learned to Lose $30,000 and Love the Con105
  9. Closing ThoughtsCXXIX
  10. A List of People Who Made the Publication of This Book PossibleCXXX
  11. About the AuthorCXXXI
  12. The Back CoverThe Back Cover