This aesthetically varied collection of nine graphic short stories is loosely linked by the recurring appearance of a black rat.

"BLACK RAT is beautiful—a distinct showcase of a young master's prowess. Cole Closser's cartooning repertoire is wonderfully versatile and dense with comic book history." —Farel Dalrymple (The Wrenchies, Pop Gun War)

"This is comix alchemy of the highest order: uncanny, funny, chilling, intoxicating, a resonating image/echo chamber that keeps propelling itself and the reader further into its own inky depths and stratospheres." — Stephen R. Bissette (Tyrant®, Taboo, Swamp Thing)