Spectacular Work From Some Spectacular Ladies
If you’ve spent even a minute on this page, you know that it’s the considered opinion of We at Fleen that the best work in [web]comics is being done by women. We’ve discussed this many times, and need not be rehashed here; if you’re looking for logic, start here and work your way through the next … gosh, I dunno, half a million words or so¹ and you’ll find plenty of my rationale. Let’s look at some of that work now.
- Hey, remember back in April when Meredith Gran did us a solid and gave us a coda² to Octopus Pie that we didn’t know that we needed and hoo boy did we need it? Good times. And remember when she offered up a limited edition print run of the story that made her store fall over? Also good times.
I got my copy this week. It’s so good. The colors (cover by Sloane Leong, interiors by Valerie Halla) popI don’t know if Gran will ever do another print run, but you can read the black and white version here for, I’d imagine, the next forever. Octopus Pie remains one of the few works that just kept getting better, and you should read all of it, like, right now.
- Hope Larson, due to circumstance and timing, is somebody I’ve not seen in person in way too long, which is a shame as I love her work. It’s varied, it’s smart, it always finds something new to say, and we always have fun when we hang out. I’ve been especially taken with her comics work since she partnered up with Rebecca Mock³ for the Four Points series, Compass South and Knife’s Edge some years back.
So it’s been with great interest that I’ve been following news of the project that’s taken up much of the past couple of years for them — a story of the heartland, with a look that’s equal parts Miyazaki and BONE, and a story that’s Wizard Of Oz if all the magic stayed in Kansas. Pandemic pushed everything back, but now we’ve got the announcement of Salt Magic:
Hey y’all! Salt Magic by me and @rebeccamock is available for preorder!!!!!!! Out October 2021. https://indiebound.org/book/9780823450503
Salt Magic releases on 12 October, and will be available at bookstores everywhere. I’m giving this a must-buy recommendation sight unseen; Larson and Mock are each individually that good, but together they’re even better.
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¹ Or approximately one third of a Homestuck.
² And unlike that famous monstrosity of an epilogue (Marigold knew the score), this one was true to the characters and story and the author hasn’t turned into a big ol’ TERF.
³ With whom I bunked during my first year of Comics Camp, and to whom I owe a life debt.
Why does the word ‘monstrosity’ link to one of the greatest works of fiction ever written?
By maarvarq on 08.27.21 7:15 am
Because Marigold knew the score, but I can see how that might cause confusion. I will edit to make it more clear.
By Gary Tyrrell on 08.27.21 6:42 pm
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