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Anger, Agnes, C. Che Salazar, and Abel Jiminez. The First Transmission of the Minimalist Comics Collective. DIY Jet Comics, 2009. 24p. $3.50. This is a blatantly experimental comic, the title alone should tell you that. With a group name like “Minimalist Comics Collective” I was expecting to find some kind of manifesto within the pages [...]

Overby, Jason. Solipsist’s Doodles. 2008. 5.5″ x 8.5″ mini, 32 pages, $2.75 from his site. After I wrote about his previous mini, Jessica, Jason Overby was kind enough to send me his most recent publication. While I was impressed by the style and disappointed by the story of Overby’s last work, the three short stories [...]

Stephen Frug found this group of pages from an old Alpha Flight comic (#6, p. 8-15) and sent it along to me in relation to “pictureless comics.” This is John Byrne at work on the classic “polar bear in a snowstorm” white on white image. What is probably most interesting here is how much the [...]

Revelations by Christian Hill. 2003. 24p., b+w, $3.50. Available from Kameleo Comics. In the wake of the ongoing “pictureless comics” investigation, I was made aware of Christian Hill’s mini “Revelations”. While the whole comic is not “pictureless” it is, for the most part (18 pages), a comic that takes place in total darkness with only [...]