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Spectrum

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Spectrum is a frenetic, genre-bending, formally inventive story about the magic and power of music with words by Rick Quinn and visuals by Dave Chisholm (Chasin' the Bird, Miles Davis and The Search for the Sound). Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the... Read More
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Spectrum is a frenetic, genre-bending, formally inventive story about the magic and power of music with words by Rick Quinn and visuals by Dave Chisholm (Chasin' the Bird, Miles Davis and The Search for the Sound).

Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the streets of Seattle during the WTO protests of 1999. She is seeing things: androids, aliens, pigs in high fashion, and a creature named Echo—one of the Sustained, elemental beings with the power to alter reality through music.

Echo invites Melody to join her as she brings about the end of the world. As Melody tries to escape this strange woman, suppressed memories from across vast spans of time flood into her awareness, bringing her very identity into question.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781545817896

Publisher: Papercutz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Papercutz

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Dave Chisholm

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 168.0mm

Height: 257.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 152

About the Author

Rick Quinn is a writer currently living in Raleigh, NC. Spectrum, co-created with Dave Chisholm, is his first published work. He is currently working on his first novel.

Dave Chisholm is a graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, NY where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium has resulted in a string of critically-acclaimed music-centric graphic novels including Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound (2023, Z2 Comics), Enter the Blue (2022, Z2 Comics), Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California (2020, Z2 Comics), and the groundbreaking graphic novel + original soundtrack Instrumental (2017, Z2 Comics). In his free time, Dave enjoys spending time with his family and his cats.

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