Keiler Roberts Keiler Roberts sits in front of her laundry machine, crying. It’s not the first time she’s cried on the floor, and when her daughter finds her, she recognizes an emergency situation. “Oh no, Mommy! 9-1-1!” Xia shouts as she rushes to her mother’s lap, absorbing the tears with her blankie. This is one of the many illustrations of domestic melancholy and tenderness in Roberts’s
My Begging Chart, a new collection of autobiographical comics from Drawn & Quarterly. Roberts is blunt about the highs and lows of everyday life, imbuing moments of vulnerability with dry humor thanks to her sparse art style and understated storytelling.
Originally published on February 28, 2021 7:00 am
It was May of 1989 when John Porcellino ( a 20-year-old, hormonally charged, punk-inspired Rock n Roller, in his own description) got the idea that would become a creative odyssey. I wanted to publish something that I could make all on my own, that could contain whatever I wanted, that could reflect my whole life, he writes in one of Drawn & Quarterly s new reissues of his work. In a zine called
King-Cat Comics and Stories, he chronicled prosaic or absurd experiences that, by 80s standards, were usually considered too trivial to merit documentation.
King-Cat helped spur the rise of the 90s zine scene and shape its distinctive culture. In the decades since, Porcellino has kept the flame alive, continuing to self-publish and operating the indie distributor Spit and a Half. Now Drawn & Quarterly has picked the ideal time to revisit his early work with three volumes:
Cartoonist and zine-maker John Porcellino has been a hugely influential figure in the world of zine-making. As several of his classic books are reissued, we talk to him about his life and work
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