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 craft projects.
Life Is A Hiiighway, by A. Driussi. This is a hilarious mini about how doing a Lightning McQueen drag king act changed his gender identity. Hilariously, it caused him to want to be a car, but he settled on being a man instead. The drawing of Driussi in that drag is completely ridiculous, and the whole thing is a very lighthearted (yet true-to-life) account of deciding to transition. The almost lurid color scheme is what makes it work.
The Long Game, by Mercedes Campos Lopez. The thing I immediately noticed about this short bit of autobio is how much smoother her line has become. This is a story about growing up with two brothers and how they were all obsessed with the game pieces of a Pokemon-themed Monopoly game. Campos Lopez detailed sneakily pillfering them from her brothers until they were missed. The segue into adulthood, where her brothers wondered whatever happened to the pieces, led to a very funny wink by the author at the end.
Laundry & Marginalia, by Michael Albrecht. Albrecht is another CCSer with enormous promise; all of his longer form comics thus far have been very interesting. These short minis show off his cartooning in different ways. Laundry is about a ghost who goes to a laundromat, washing itself in a machine and then coming home dripping wet, hanging itself on a line to dry. Albrecht's pencil work here is just lovely, all in service of a gag. Marginalia is just that: doodles, scribbles, half-formed ideas, exhortations, and moments of despair.
Life As An Elementary Ghost #4 & #5, by Ashley Jablonski. I love the genre of teachers writing comics about the ridiculous things their kids say in class, and Jablonski's twist on it is drawing everyone as ghosts. It's a clever idea because it conveys the spirit of the idea with simple, stylized drawings without adding too much identifying detail.
How to be: Mysterious, by Faith Cox. Cox is another big-time talent, and this purports to be the latest volume of a larger How To Be series. Using a delightful rabbit character (doing this like posing in front of a mirror while saying "I am a sexy enigma"), the illustrations belie the dubious instructions of the "manual" in amusing ways. For a quick one-off gag, this was executed with considerable care.
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