Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
"Mouth" explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey.
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Spotlight: Jon Gant’s You & Me
Told in second-person narrative, You & Me is a nostalgic and humorous collection of observations, memories, and dreams.
Spotlight: “A Farmer’s Hands” by Dale Vande Griend
I grew up on a farm in Iowa where my dad has worked every day of his life. He is the hardest working yet most loving man I have ever known.
Spotlight: “Migraine Couch” by Allyson Hoffman
“Migraine Couch” reflects how daily life and memory are shaped by chronic illness.
Spotlight: Gripe! Comics by Isaac Roller
Gripe! is a series of open format comics that poke gentle and not-so-gentle fun at popular culture, language, the human condition, and current hairstyles.
Spotlight: Lorenzo Fonda’s “Yo Solve Cuba”
Jotting down experiences in comics form is also a way for me to assimilate and process them through my own life-filter...
Spotlight: “Nuts: A True Story” by Peter Witte
It’s more likely, though, that someone saw everything and felt sympathy that, in the moment, they just didn't communicate.
Narrowly Avoiding the Spotlight
It took me nearly twenty years and the power of a fine film to fully realize what happened to me in the confessional was an inappropriate act by an adult against a child.
Spotlight: “Gravity” by Jarod Roselló
"Gravity" explores the tensions and sensations of human relationships through the juxtaposition of the impossible and the mundane, the domestic and the fantastic.
Spotlight: “Lumbersexual Builds a Bed” by Colleen Kolba
"Lumbersexuals Builds a Bed" is the first in a series of mini-comics that explore character construction through different "types" of people in society."
Spotlight: Kevin Quigley’s “June Bug Versus Hurricane”
"June Bug Versus Hurricane" is inspired by a line in a Lucinda Williams song...
Spotlight: “Mind” by Colleen Louise Barry
"Mind" is an installment of the ongoing comic series Idiomatic from writer and artist Colleen Louise Barry.