Deep Park - published by Pikitia Press, 2013
Retouched and published online May 2019
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'The beloved amusement park with it all: carousels, drop rides, a hallucinogenic water slide, an orgasm inducing roller coaster and the cult that worships it. Join a colourful cast of characters wasting a day in the sun, exploring the thrills, and terrors, Deep Park has to offer.'

Deep Park is an Australian graphic novella from a fresh young voice. An equal parts amusing and uncomfortable exploration of repercussions and human failings, the story of Deep Park is presented as seemingly separated vignettes; we follow characters for two or four pages before moving on to another scenario. Only as the book progresses is it revealed how interconnected and co-dependent these stories are, all leading towards a climactic clash between a crazed, genocidal Disney-like figure and a roller coaster worshipping cult of desperation!
​The fun never stops at Deep Park.

'This was my favorite of all the Pikitia releases; Mahler's darkly satirical and absurdist sense of humor is not unlike that of Matthew Thurber.' - Rob Clough, The Comics Journal

'Lost Classics: Deep Park, by David C. Mahler' article, the MNT
'Comics From Oceania: Pikitia Press', The Comics Journal