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Minis: Ruby Carter and Kayla E.Ruby Carter is a young Chicago cartoonist who is primarily a humorist at this point in her career. For full disclosure, she will be doing a...
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The Sickness: Uncivilized's dip into horrorThe first issue of The Sickness, published by Uncivilized Books, looks and feels more like a 90s black & white Image comic than the kind of...
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Short Reviews Of Short Minis: Desmond Reed, Fredo Noland, Stuart StratuTroubled Teen , by Desmond Reed. Reed is at his best when he gets to depict highly detailed, grotesque characters. This is a...
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Minis: Alli KatzI met Alli Katz at CAKE 2023, and she was kind enough to give me a few of her minis. Two of them focused on pregnancy and the frequently dubious...
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Short Reviews Of Short Minis: Storme Smith & Co; S.C.A.R.I've recently become reunited with a bunch of minicomics meant for review that had been in storage. It's time to hit that backlog with short...
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The Beauty of Sloppiness: Julia Wertz's Museum Of MistakesIn the original introduction that Peter Bagge wrote for the first Fart Party collection, he said of the webcomic proliferation of the early...
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The Exception That Proves The Rule: Julia Wertz's Impossible PeopleThere's a scene late in Impossible People , Julia Wertz's recovery memoir, where she meets New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Chast reveals that...
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Time for more Van Scivering!As a teacher and editor, Noah Van Sciver is one of my favorite examples to bring up of a cartoonist who had to work hard to find his voice, hone...
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Keith Knight's Good On Both SidesGentleman Cartoonist Keith Knight is a polymath. From his days as a musician, to his TV show Woke (based on his own life), to his prolific...
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Julia Gfrörer's bleak VisionAn underlooked part of evaluating comics (and a highly subjective one) is the sheer visual appeal of the art. What is appealing is subjective, as...
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The Indy Life: Leslie Stein's Brooklyn's Last SecretLeslie Stein's work has veered between direct memoir and her "Eye Of The Majestic Creature" series, which is essentially fabulist memoir....
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The Perverseness of Nick Maandag: Harvey Knight's OdysseyAs a comedic writer, Nick Maandag follows a kind of logic that defies standard expectations of what a comic narrative should be like. In his new...
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31 Days of CCS, 2022: The IndexHere's a complete list of every 31 Days Of CCS entry that I did for 2022. The last entry was just finished recently, but I backdated them all to...
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31 Days Of CCS, #27: Kristen ShullDaily diary comics are an excellent practice, especially for young cartoonists who need opportunities to put techniques into action. They're also...
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31 Days Of CCS, #31: Rust Belt Review 2-4Sean Knickerbocker has been regularly releasing an interesting anthology that's taken work from open calls, and the results have been uniformly...
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31 Days Of CCS, #30: Bread TarletonBread Tarleton (full disclosure: Fieldmouse Press will be publishing a book by Bread next year) is fascinating to follow as a cartoonist because...
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31 Days Of CCS, #29: Filipa EstrelaFilipa Estrela crafts (and I do mean crafts) delightful, multi-media minicomics, often using materials like felt and then photographing it to...
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31 Days Of CCS, #28: Leeah SwiftLeeah Swift crafted a number of beautifully-drawn, confrontational, and hilarious comics for her CCS thesis package, but the one that sums up...
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31 Days Of CCS, #26: Fantology Volume 3Kristen Shull and Emily Zea have produced another winning edition of Fantology , with probably the strongest issue from top to bottom. Its...
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31 Days Of CCS, #25 Andy WarnerAndy Warner's versatile and pleasing line has led him to a cottage industry of writing the histories of familiar things. His first book was A...
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31 Days Of CCS, #24: Michael Sweater, Good Boy!Michael Sweater embodies the aesthetic of much of Silver Sprocket's publishing output. I'm not exactly sure what to call this--cutepunk? Nerdpunk?...
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31 Days Of CCS, #23: Masha Zhdanova & April MaligApril Malig's zines are closer in spirit to classic perzines of the late 80s and 90s than typical diary minicomics, in part because she frequently...
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31 Days Of CCS, #22: Andy Lindquist and Kit AndersonSlipping , by Kit Anderson. Anderson has such a great knack for portraying loneliness, longing, alienation, and liminal places in a way that...
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31 Days Of CCS, #21: David Yoder & Amy BurnsDavid Yoder's best comics have always been his humor comics, and he's focused on that in recent years with his strips that react to movies. His...
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31 Days Of CCS, #20: Sam Held, Isabella M. Hall, Colleen FrakesAttercop , by Sam Held. Anyone who's ever read The Hobbit knows that an attercop is a sort of insulting term for a spider, as it...
