The Second Safest Mountain
A mature graphic novella about leaving the mountain dedicated to sacred women, and the repercussions of entering the world below. When Aru ventures into the land beneath the mountain, they are soon confronted with what it means to leave the safety of being holy and beloved.
Created by Otava Heikkilä.
100 pages, hardback. Appropriate for age 15+. Contains violence, sexual imagery and body horror.
A mature graphic novella about leaving the mountain dedicated to sacred women, and the repercussions of entering the world below. When Aru ventures into the land beneath the mountain, they are soon confronted with what it means to leave the safety of being holy and beloved.
Created by Otava Heikkilä.
100 pages, hardback. Appropriate for age 15+. Contains violence, sexual imagery and body horror.
A mature graphic novella about leaving the mountain dedicated to sacred women, and the repercussions of entering the world below. When Aru ventures into the land beneath the mountain, they are soon confronted with what it means to leave the safety of being holy and beloved.
Created by Otava Heikkilä.
100 pages, hardback. Appropriate for age 15+. Contains violence, sexual imagery and body horror.
"The Second Safest Mountain is visceral, stunning and dreamlike. It grips me by the heart. Otava can say so much with one look, one glance, one cast shadow. This story is surrealism at its best, used to talk about the terrible thing we have all laid prostrate to. Yet there is hope here, our world is dark but we carry the light." - Jess Fink, Chester 5000
"Haunting, allegorical horror at its finest. Heikkilä's comics are a masterclass in pacing and suspense." - Mel Gillman, As the Crow Flies
"Through its powerfully unsettling atmosphere and deeply human characters, The Second Safest Mountain illuminates why Heikkilä is one of the most exciting working cartoonists of the moment." - Ariel Slamet Ries, Witchy
"A masterwork of subtle dread; a deft dissection of the tension between the fragile safety of a familiar cage and the unknown freedom of self-determination. Stark and vivid all at once. We are left with a question: what is the value of community yoked to the adoration of fear in the face of hard-earned togetherness?" - Shivana Sookdeo, Write Write Kill
