Read Substack Comics with Me?
Reviews coming up this week...
In addition to our every-other-weekly podcast (which we’ll bump up to weekly once we hit the threshold of supporters!) about comics of all kinds, the Comics Syllabus Substack will aim to review two or three Substack comics every week. Yay!
There’s a bounty of cool new works coming out from the growing list of creators publishing creator-owned comics on Substacks. Those comics are piling up into a bunch of exciting series and promising starts. Follow it all here!
Coming this week…
Monday’s Manga: We’ll take a look at Mangasplaining Extra’s first chapters of Susumu Higa’s “Okinawa” (chapter 1 and 2 here). We’ll touch on war, perspective, and questions for the future installments of this WWII manga.
Wednesday’s Worlds: The ginormous undertaking of fathoming 3 Worlds/ 3 Moons will begin by looking at Hickman, Huddleston, and Del Mundo’s “Fable” and “Ruins.” Family, frontier, and flying too close to the sun.
Friday’s Fictions: Is it a romance? Or like many literary works playing in the genre, a meta-commentary on desire, fiction, gender, and time? Tom King and Elsa Charretier’s Everlasting Productions has launched with Love Everlasting, and we’ll get swept off our feet (will we?) with its first issue.
And in future weeks, the “Saturday Supers,” “Thursday Thrillers,” and the regular CS podcast will round out our exploration of comics and Substack’s racks. Let’s dig deep!
Hi, I listened to your last few podcasts and I found them so interesting and engaging that I decided to subscribe. In the last week I have been unable to stop myself from subscribing to a number of Substack creators. I'm going to try to stop at my current list for budget reasons but here are my subscriptions: Comics Syllabus Newsletter, Copper Bottle, Dark Apocrypha Presents, Glass Eye Studios, It's Chip Zdarsky's Newsletter, OK?, MSX - The Mangasplaining Newsletter, Tales from the Farm, and 3 Worlds / 3 Moons. I should be able to follow along with a substantial portion of the Substack creators you will cover. This will be an interesting experience for me because I am not usually interested in communicating directly with creators but usually prefer the "author is dead" approach of just reading the work. I'm ready to go on the journey and I really appreciate the time and effort you take in constructing your podcast episodes and your inclusion of interesting works from the non-comics world that inform your reading.