3 mini-books:•Holy Diver•Joy Ride•Rainbow CollieRachelle Meyer cunningly subverts the mini landscape format of the Chick Tracts in her autobio series Texas Tracts, appropriating their look and parodying them with a far more beneficial intent.Dive into this trilogy of funny and touching stories about growing up Catholic in the Lone Star State.Rachelle Meyer cunningly subverts the mini landscape format of the Chick Tracts in her autobio series Texas Tracts, appropriating their look and parodying them with a far more beneficial intent."What works so well here isn’t simply in the immediate parody of a notorious source but the way in which Meyer uses the original format to create a more layered social commentary, going beyond the obvious critique of belligerent religious teaching and offering a profound and nuanced reflection on the importance of breaking free from group indoctrination and embracing individual freedom of thought." - Broken Frontier"As for the cartooning in these three comics, it’s uniformly exemplary: Meyer is a modern master of shading and wash effects, her figure drawing is equal parts singular and fundamentally sound, and her style is versatile enough to encompass the heavier and more somber aspects of the story in Joy Ride as well as the (sorry to invoke the term, but) “feel-good” and self-affirming tone of Rainbow Collie. She’s got talent the size of Texas in her, of that there is absolutely no doubt." - Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse"Quite subtle and deft in its storytelling. … Her perspective, her voice, is very much needed in the community." - Deconstructing Comics