‘It never, ever, ever stops’: An Interview with Raquelle Jac

Features Rae Whitlock | August 18, 2026 Photo of Raquelle Jac by Yuvie Styles, edited by Raquelle Jac In 2020, Raquelle Jac’s comic “Misguided Love” escaped containment from NOW #9 and threatened to infect the world with its colorful chaos — and possibly chlamydia. This delightfully unsubtle, 45-page tome smacked you over the head with Big Feelings in the form of an id-fueled, nightmare/fantasy of urgent, unfiltered storytelling. Five years and 360 pages later, Jac has returned to rattle our eyeballs with Bimbo Agitprop. For such a bold debut, Jac enters our late-April Zoom interview with politeness and trepidation. She has grown and changed since this book began to take shape, and the book has grown alongside her, shape-shifting in color, medium, and form so that reading it straight through feels like a visceral, co-evolutionary experience. Growing up split between two abusive Texas homes haunted by Y2K-anxiety branded Jac’s childhood like a hot iron. She dutifully reproduces her worldview of that time on every page, down to the exact label on the powdered milk her prepper mom bought in bulk. Encyclopedic entries are devoted to some of the DIY healing technologies employed by her ...