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An Afrofuturist horror-comedy about gentrification, hip hop, and cultural appropriation. Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing, Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDRS (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny, scary, and thought provoking, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters―both metaphoric and real―that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today. Full-color illustrations throughout. Read more
Publisher : Fantagraphics
Publication date : June 25, 2019
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1683962060
ISBN-13 : 69
Item Weight : 1.54 pounds
Dimensions : 7.8 x 1 x 6.3 inches
Part of Series : BTTM FDRS
Best Sellers Rank: #877,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #282 in Fantagraphics Comics & Graphic Novels #837 in Literary Graphic Novels (Books) #1,986 in Horror Graphic Novels (Books)
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Format: Hardcover
This is kind of a strange book. It sort of has a plot, but it's also sort of artsy or something where the plot is a little odd. The blurb about the book, which is quotes about "urban blight" and "gentrification" and "body horror" make it seem like the book will be about gentrification, but to me the theme was more about race. The plot follows Donna, a recent art school grad and aspiring fashion designer. She's moving into an apartment in the BottomYards, a bad part of town, which she was originally from as a child (too small to remember). She's moving into a big apartment in an apartments building that has been mostly vacant for decades, which is under new management, and where the only former tenant is having to move out due to rising rent. Well, that's the opening pages. Beyond that, it gets kind of bizarre. Most negative reviews seem like they weren't into that, and wanted something more linear. The comic starts with maintenance workers seeing something strange in the crawl space of the building. Then, the next pages are Donna moving in. Soon after Donna moves in strange things begin to happen. I'll call it "haunted", but it's not quite that. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear it's more like an urban industrial thing - corporate exploitation, and science, and poverty, and organic life, all mixed up together and gone wrong. But, if you go in thinking that the building is haunted, then that kind of gives the vibe. Much of the asides of the comic book are race relations. Donna is black and her friend, and would be roommate, Cynthia, is white. Cynthia sees the BottomYards as great for a brand. She recognizes a local musician moving into the building and makes it her goal to have sex with him, mostly for image. There are many little microagressions, and at the end, while Donna saves Cynthia from the haunted building, the news media ends up doing a story about Cynthia as the face-of-the-BottomYards (even though she isn't from there and never even managed to move in before things got so crazy with the haunted building). So many microagressions, over and over. Illustrations are just a few garish colors per page, and style of drawing is maybe gloppy. It's a shame that there isn't any "Look Inside" on Amazon right now. If you scroll down and look at the product description area, there are a couple of frames from the comic, and those kind of give an idea of the style - especially high contrast and limited color palette. As far as telling a story, the pics are effective at that. It's easy to recognize a character from page to page, and distinctive features are played up so that reading the characters in the pics from frame to frame is effortless. Backgrounds are often highly detailed, with clutter or organic scary things (from the haunting). If you like stand alone comics that are not part of a series, then this is probably worthwhile. Most negative reviews seem to want a more linear plot. Most positive reviews seem to really like the graphics. I am on the fence. I want a more linear plot, but also this book kept interesting, and had good character development, including for the building as a character. What sets it apart is... mood. And, really, the guessing and mystery is really common in stories about hauntings. I don't particularly like it, but it's unique and definitely a keeper for my comic collection, and I will probably compulsively reread it at some point.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2019 by Gagewyn
Format: Hardcover
BTTM FDRS is a contemporary graphic novel taking place in the south side or bottom yards of Chicago. A trust fund fashion design graduate moves into an enormous industrial building for the cheap rent and lots of space. After many misadventures our heroine manages to survive many outrageous occurrences while the building does not. Many issues are discussed about race and gentrification against an epic background of oozing disgusting goop configuration. Kind if like the Frieze Art Show in the hood.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2024 by Robert Condon author of Music & Geometry
Format: Hardcover
The artwork in this book is very engaging, the characters likable, well drawn both with pictures and dialog. It's an enthralling story which draws one in. I think you will love the characters even if you don't follow their philosophy, and that is amazing in these times.
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2025 by Karin Passmore
Format: Hardcover
I just finished this book and I'm not sure what to say. My absolute favorite thing about graphic novels is the complete and mindbogglingly strange randomness that many bring to their plots. This story has strangeness in spades. There is an at times homicidal sentient house creature that lives in an apartment building in a rough inner city neighborhood. Strangeness starts to occur when people start discovering the secret creature that has awoken. The story is set atop a setting of a tough neighborhood that is dealing with issues of race and appropriation. There is an ironic black rapper whose stage act has him dress as an ironic pilgrim from Plymouth Rock and a posing white BFF to the main character who revels in her brushes with black culture, feeling kinship despite her ability to step away from issues when she wants to. It is a nuanced environmental backdrop to a classic monster story. There is plenty of creepiness and comic violence, swearing and adult themes. This is a book for adults who still relish goofy horror stories. It is a fun and surprising read. The art is a little rough, with a somewhat crude but workable style. The individual cells are well composed and drive the story and eye along the pages. It is not very refined visually, but the rough stylized illustrations seem to fit the story and subject and I could easily tell characters apart, so it all worked. I would recommend this to any mature audience member who likes quirky storylines with a bit of an edge and a little bit of horror. It was well worth the twenty minutes it takes to read it.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019 by Bryan Newman
Format: Hardcover
I want to merely write WOW for this Daniels and Passmore graphic novel but you probably want to know more. The art is very colorful and has an edgy quality to it that I don't normally like but it really worked with the story. The changes in colors signaled what was happening, ratcheting up the creepiness without relying on the traditional dark-light or grayscale format. Our main viewpoint character is Darla, an artist who is returning to where she grew up in Chicago, the Bottomyards, which has decayed through institutional and social racism. Darla may complain about people buying up the buildings but she, too, is taking advantage of the lower rents for an apartment that can also serve as artist studio. We get enough into her life and mind that I was able to develop strong empathy for her. Thus the everyday struggles and the weird horror of the building felt more intense. That weird horror is science fiction in nature and without revealing too much, let me add it deals with the unjust treatment of women and minorities by business and government agencies as well. Through Darla's friends, neighbors, and others she interacts with, that horror is cranked up further. This graphic novel makes me want to find more work by Daniels and Passmore!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2019 by TammyJo Eckhart
Format: Hardcover
I generally like comics that think and ones that aren't just self-congratulatory clever. This is one such comic. Without giving away too much, there is a number of layers. The first layer is a horror story. Someone moves into a Creepy House With Secrets. There are all the odd things, a quirky cast of bit-part characters, mysterious warnings, and signs pointing to mysteries. And yes, there is a monster. The second layer is about gentrification framed as the colonization of Black neighborhoods by heartless landlords via creatives. All creative types in this book are either rich or posers unsuccessfully attempting to be ironic which must have been a particularly uncomfortable bit for the author to write. This quickly goes to questions of identity and authenticity mostly but not entirely framed in terms of race and class. This is one of the areas where the author takes an explicitly bigoted stance. There isn't a single good thing a white person does in this book. Not one single one. Even when one tries to it quickly becomes invasive, destructive, and murderous. As one character says "They can't help themselves. That's the way they are." Not worth harping on, but worth mentioning. And because things in essays come in threes we arrive at the hidden truths. The monster is a good thing perverted by State power and Capitalism to be dangerous and destructive. The obvious metaphors fall into place, as does the denouement. Once the questions have been answered flawed human relations although still problematic and probably doomed are allowed to be salvaged for now. The story is decent, not spectacular but original and consistent. The artist employs a certain number of broad brushes but is up-front about it. The plot moves along at a steady pace for a bit longer than it needed to to tell the tale. I found that the art actively detracted from the story. Comics don't have to be four-color comic book style or hyper-realistic or any other thing. The self-consciously crude, lumpy, and ugly style has never really worked for me. Overall? It was interesting and original and covered issues which hardly ever get a graphic treatment, but it could have been a lot better.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2019 by A. Nuran
Format: Hardcover
I love the almost monochromatic color schemes. The shifts in colors on pages is brilliant. The full color ending is also a great pop to show transition of place and time. The drawings are simple, but provocative. It is a bizarre mix of drawings with detail, but the detail is not too detailed. (The cover graphic is a different style form the actual comic.) The story is great. The characters are identifiable. The pacing keeps you reading until the very end. I love horror, but I have never before read “Gentrification horror.” I think I have only read novels about body horror. I like the mix here. I think both genres are ones I will continue to seek out, especially in comic form. Overall I think it is a great comic and I highly recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019 by C Wahlman
Format: Hardcover
At first, the history was little hart to read, but after few pages I could understand a little and I just wanted to keep reading. Great drawings and colors, makes your eyes keep going and stay alert. Im not such a great reading person, that why most of my books has to have colors or a little of images to visualize. I will update my review when I finish my book :)
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2019 Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2019 by Perlita C