What's Fear Got to Do With It? by Ivana Filipovich

Eva and Mia couldn't be more different. Where Mia is insecure and image-obsessed, Eva is quiet and sensible. But the two women have one thing in common: their boyfriend, Maxa highly respected member of the city's criminal underground with a fearsome reputation. Over the course of a single dangerous evening at the night market, it quickly becomes clear that no one is in this relationship for loveinstead, Mia, Eva, and Max are motivated by other complex social contracts: power, money, and fear.

Inspired by the work of literary masters Anton Chekhov, Ingmar Bergman, and Tennessee Williams, and created in a style that's reminiscent of black-and-white European artist Blutch,What's Fear Got to Do With Itpeels back the layers of human relationships and reveals that everything is not as it seems. A stunning debut from a talented artist who is part of the new Balkan Renaissance in comics. (From Conundrum Press)

Ivana Filipovich is a Canadian Serbian cartoonist and illustrator based in British Columbia. Her comics have been published in Slovenia, Sweden and Serbia.