I also really enjoyed David Collier’s Before the Pandemic There Was a Touch Football Tourney, published by kuš!, which is a strong diaristic comic about the last vestiges of pre-pandemic normalcy and their slow erosion, with lovely cartooning.
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Really enjoyed Maunder by Ivo Puiupo (published by kuš!). Puiupo’s cartooning is wonderful, gorgeously realizing the author’s musing on the limits of the tangible and concrete against the expanses of the emotional and internal. Just a really lovely bit of comics.
Lilli Carré’s Open Molar (published by kuš!) is as beautiful as it is perplexing—a gorgeous piece of comics-as-hermetic-poetry that defies easy understanding and is all the more impressive for it, with wonderful contour-driven cartooning. Cryptic and wondrous in equal measure.
The first volume of kuš’s š! anthology that I read was #34, depicting four stories of escape from the Holocaust, which I loved—I wasn’t familiar with any of the cartoonists involved but they all balance an immense care for the subject matter with copious charm and skill in craft.