Author Archives: Carrie

I opened Kenan’s small envelope with excitement. What manner of comic goodness (or badness) would be inside? And that’s why, though Prologue, a one-page comic in booklet form that unfolds as the plot does, is available online in its entirety, … Continue reading →

Do you remember those post-apocalyptic 80s movies where the world is all teenagers and everybody roams in packs and smokes and is bad? Hellen Jo’s world is kind of like that except everybody is thirteen years old and Asian. We … Continue reading →

How could I resist? Though I didn’t get my copy at a convention, and therefore missed out on the free tampon, there was no way I would miss a book with such bloody themes. Jen Vaughn is a MFA student … Continue reading →

This 22 page B&W short story comic takes me back to my Xeroxed zine-reading days. Runx Tales chronicles the escapades of a West Coast, queer punk guy with a penchant for problematic men and marginal employment. Inside you will learn … Continue reading →

With gorgeous covers by Aron Nels Steinke and Hellen Jo, Papercutter 9 sets the bar high in the lookin’-good department. The standard is upheld with Nate Beatty’s interior cover urban scenes and the work by the aforementioned artists and other … Continue reading →

Upon hearing the news that IVY #4 was finished, I decided that it was imperative to finally review the first three issues of Sarah Oleksyk’s excellent series. Chapter one introduces us to Maine high school seniors Ivy and her friends … Continue reading →

Trivial is the third book in I Know Joe Kimpel’s 4-Square Books themed anthology series. Like No! and Sorry, Trivial collects the work of four CCS graduates and affiliates, and the proceeds go towards defraying convention costs. This time around … Continue reading →

Fantastical creatures with enigmatic expressions get me every time. This time I was in Austin’s Austin Books checking out their minicomics after hitting the surprisingly quality half-off shelves when the winged monkey from Toastycats 2 practically flew into my face. … Continue reading →

No! is the second book in the Four Square series, the I Know Joe Kimpel (a Center for Cartoon Studies student-related distributor) themed anthologies that raise funds for the artists’ convention costs. The first, Sorry, featured the work of Colleen … Continue reading →