Beat It, Rufus Sage Coffey But the Gems Garnet

But the Gems Garnet

Helen Cross

but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist

if not one of the most sincere voices of her literary generation

Yet despite underlining petty and self-interested motives on all sides

Beat It, Rufus Sage Coffey But the Gems GarnetBy Noah Van Sciver. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 220 pages, Colour, 2025. From the author of Fante Bukowski and Joseph Smith and the Mormons, a hysterical character comedy about an aging rock god in his own mind forced to face the music. Rufus Baxter is an aging, professionally unemployed loser, desperately delusionally hanging on to his 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining arenas, despite so much evidence to the contrary (like audience