Arpad Okay, The Beat:
“But also as a book nerd, Hell Phone‘s art to the bleed, absolute edge of page leaf, satisfies. A doodle book your friend made, not a thing sold in stores. In a horror story centered on lost objects coming back from the past, the print version feels that way. Graf notebook. Smaller paper size than a long box graphic novel, “as a mystery novel should be,” according to my muscle memory. Pulpy pages. Comforting sense of object. Nate’s style is so blocked out and cartoonist that the gutters that do occur become their own amplified space. The colors in Hell Phone are textured (or my book is) but flat, and with the edges of the page being the edge of the art, the white becomes a bit more to the comic’s key than just negative space, or the sole province of the dialogue. And the lettering! Big gutter bubble drift! Those sound effects! Hell Phone just hits different.”
Read the full review on The Beat’s website here!
