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Ruby Carter's I, Candy reveals another side of the artist. Her bird comic (published by Fieldmouse Press) featured minimalist cartooning, deadpan humor, and low-level anxiety throughout. However, her other work (often in color) is often colorful, weird, and grotesque. I, Candy explicitly purports to be about objectification and consumption, and those elements ar...

Most of Jeff Lok's career was spent on extremely dark, bizarre humor comics. His scratchy line was a big part of the appeal of those strips. We at Fieldmouse Press published his memoir Totality, which represented a big step forward artistically and narratively. Lok didn't lose any of his bleak, acidic sense of humor in a memoir that was essentially a takedown of the Am...

Some short CCS reviews for some short CCS comics: 

a berry silly Love Letter, by Coco Fox. Fox is really good at cute, pun-based comics, and this tiny comic sealed in a tiny envelope (sealed with wax!) is no exception. The puns here are based on food, and it's reflelctive of the kind of kids' comics that she's best known for, as well as her penchant for art and c...

Full disclosure: Fieldmouse Press will be publishing Ana Two's horror comic Dark Room next year. A running joke I have with Ana is that, regardless of the subject of their comics, they are always inevitably about power exchange and power relationships in kink-oriented relationships. Even their delightfully deranged comic for Diskette Press, Girl Yaoi, starts wit...

Iris Yan, on occasion, will engage in a solid gimmick for her comics. In The Story Of Some Objects, the cover depicts photos of 11 seemingly random objects. However, Yan spins stories about how each of them came into her orbit, using her typical anthropomorphic animal style. The list included a ring adorned with Legos, an eraser that changes colors in the sun, an uncom...