KAP TRAP

KAP TRAP — Underground Comic, Texas 1991

KAP TRAP is an early work by Mat Brinkman, drawn in Texas in 1991 when the artist was 18 years old. Published by Hollow Press in a limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide, it documents a formative stage in Brinkman's visual development — raw, dense, and already operating in the surreal register that would define his later work.

The comic presents intense black-and-white imagery rooted in underground tradition, with a visual language that anticipates the grotesque worldbuilding of Multiforce and Manifester Monsters. As an object, it occupies an unusual position: both a working document of an artist's early practice and a resolved publication in its own right. Readers familiar with Brinkman's broader output — including Teratoid Heights (Museum Edition) and Multiforce Shit — will find in KAP TRAP a coherent, if earlier, expression of the same sensibility.

The Hollow Press edition is produced with close attention to materials. The hard thin cover is made from Sirio Black/Black paper with bronze hot foil details; the interior runs to 56 black-and-white pages on Fedrigoni Arcoprint ivory paper, bound with a stitched binding. The edition is limited to 1000 copies.

KAP TRAP is catalogued under Surreal & Experimental Comics at Lokator100.