'The Magic Bottle' by Camille Rose Garcia

I've been reading a lot about the painter Camille Rose Garcia lately. There is a great article in the current issue of Bust, and her toys are all over town! She also currently has a show at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in LA. Turns out, she has just completed a graphic novel, 'The Magic Bottle'. In 'The Magic Bottle', Lulu Blackenshoe lives in a gray world dominated by factories, landfills and giant corporations. Nature has all but disappeared in her world, but no one notices because of the antidepressants they’re on. Lulu (who never takes her medicine) feels an increasing sense of dread and despair, until her fate changes one cold day when she finds a magic bottle containing a map. Drawn by pirates long ago, this map shows the way to the lost world of the Peppermint Islands, sunk to the bottom of the sea 400 years ago in the great battle between the pirates and the capitalists. Suddenly, Lulu has the chance to save the last remaining wild animals on earth, but she’ll have to battle the Peppermint Man and the Great Trading Company in order to defeat the capitalist machine out to ruin the natural world.