This is one of those books that you read more because of the book's back-story than the actual appeal of the book. John Hicklenton, a talented comic artist, struggled for years with multiple sclerosis, before deciding to take his own life with the help of an assisted suicide group. 100 Months was his salute to the rage of life and death, and the last work he produced, knowing that he was going to kill himself upon its completion. The work itself is stark, bloody, and evocative of our most visceral fears of death. While it's a small book, the text requires concentration and thought, and you will definitely have to read it more than once in order to put together even the roughest meaning. It was dark, but brilliant.
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