Spotlight
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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.
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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.
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Spotlight: “Migraine Couch” by Allyson Hoffman
“Migraine Couch” reflects how daily life and memory are shaped by chronic illness.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Spotlight: Kevin Quigley’s “June Bug Versus Hurricane”
“June Bug Versus Hurricane” is inspired by a line in a Lucinda Williams song…
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Spotlight: “Mind” by Colleen Louise Barry
“Mind” is an installment of the ongoing comic series Idiomatic from writer and artist Colleen Louise Barry.