My Insomnia Is Your Gain, Episode 2058

I went and linked up the Five For Friday results for the 417th version of that specific exercise, this time focusing on favorite comics facilitated by Chris Oliveros during his 25 years as the publisher at Drawn and Quarterly. I liked the results. I though there was a really wide range of (mostly) specific material selected, everything from David Collier to those Waiting For Food books to books from all the volumes of the great anthology series to Seth to Chester to Adrian and so on.

That's a nice accomplishment, to have a range of material to which people respond, particularly in that a conventional-wisdom strength of Drawn and Quarterly -- it was part of Jog's statement on the company's history under Oliveros -- is that all the material seems to arise from a steadying, confident aesthetic.

Anyway, there's a lot of great work there to explore and maybe those links will make it three percent easier to do that. In a lot of cases you can buy individual comics from some of these potent cartoonists for half the money it takes to secure work from cartoonists maybe not as talented that happen to be publishing today. They're still good comics! I think about ten years people are going to be hardcore mining out of print alt-work from the 1990s in a significant, so this is your chance to get a head start.
 
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