'85 by Danny Simmons; Floyd Hughes, ill. New York: Atria Books, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7432-9781-3

Crow is a heroin junkie living in New York City who gets himself mixed up with a variety of dangerous criminals in an attempt to unload some stolen artwork.

Medium: pen and ink, pencil, watercolor

Rating: 3Q/3P

Literary device utilized: rhythm

Example: “Small dark-brown men releasing sculpture from tree trunks and stone blocks...blue-black women weaving intricate raffia textile...”

submitted July 2009 by Josh Mitchell