Sunrise

Here’s a non-Sunrise comic I drew recently.  I don’t know if you guys read a lot of print comics,  but I always keep one eye on the print scene (except superhero comics,  which I studiously avoid).  Anyway,  what this leads up to is that I’m tired of comics artists being unable to think of anything to write about other than whiny memoirs about their stupid childhoods.  I think Maus was at the root of this.  When Spiegelman showed that comics could be used for non-fiction,  dozens of cartoonists who could draw but couldn’t tell stories were struck with lightning-bolt inspirations to tell the stories of their childhoods.  So now “graphic memoirs” are a drug on the market,  and I’m getting mighty tired of them.

So anyway,  this is all to say that I have a new mini-comic which I wrote in response to this trend.  >>> Read it. <<<

It’s also worth noting that this is my “fast and loose” style,  which I don’t think I’ve ever posted here before.  I kind of like working this way (though I don’t intend to change Sunrise),  and I hope to use it further in a project I’m planning for the summer.

Edit: Link fixed.  That was dumb.