Torpedo Boy to the Rescue
The mixed-media artist Trenton Doyle Hancock stands in-side his cluttered warehouse studio, in the Acres Homes neighborhood of Houston. He is flipping through drawings of the graphic novel he began creating a couple of years ago while living in Berlin. It’s a customarily hot summer day, with no A/C, and beads of sweat form on his bespectacled face as he explains the storyline for Chapter 2: something totally outlandish and impossible to follow, yet deeply felt and mesmerizing to hear, about veganism as a form of religion.
The graphic novel is a deep-dive into Torpedo Boy, the Mounds, and other characters Hancock uses to play out morality tales in his artworks. In addition to drawing and painting, he’s dipped into opera (, a collaboration
