Daystar Ryo Hanada Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s

Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II

By Pat Mills & Christine Ellingham

By Joseph Sheppard

isolated from the society beyond the palace walls despite their dominion over it

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Daystar Ryo Hanada Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’sBy Matt Emmons and Aaron Losty. Self Published Second At Best Press Softcover, 76 pages, Colour, 2025. A tale of cosmic horror and hardship that befalls a small community of animals when something otherworldly shatters their peaceful way of life, granting them sentience but at what cost? The land is poisoned, and not all the changes among the animals are benevolent. Daystar follows Mesmo the rat as he struggles to make sense of his newfound sentience