High Maintenance Machine by Matt Reidsma (48 pages, monthly)
I just received my first subscription copy of HMM in the mail this month. I sat right down and read it, and my first reaction was, “Wow, this is what indie comics is all about!” Mr. Reidsma draws a daily diary comic, and every single month he puts them all together in a darling little quarter-fold mini and sends them out to subscribers (like me). Just think about how gorgeous that system is… The artist lives and creates each day, and then lovingly mails you the month’s accumulation.
Matt’s comics deal with funky conversations, pets, strange moments of personal hygiene, travel, and of course the slowly shifting seasons. The OCTOBER 2007 issue (#15) includes Matt’s amazing round-up of all the cartoonists he met at Small Press Expo (SPX) in Maryland – 68 little cartoon portraits in all.
Matt publishes his comics regularly at http://www.reidsrow.com/ … but these are the sort of comics you’ll want to read on paper, with a cup of tea at your side and your favorite type of small animal sleeping on your lap. The style has evolved from a mixture of James Kochalka and Chris Ware to an intriguingly sensitive, personal romp through fun shapes of light and dark, line and space, cats and yogurt. Matt also includes fun articles (like a yogurt recipe, for instance) in each issue. Thank you, Matt Reidsma, for renewing my faith in mail-order comics communication!
I just received my first subscription copy of HMM in the mail this month. I sat right down and read it, and my first reaction was, “Wow, this is what indie comics is all about!” Mr. Reidsma draws a daily diary comic, and every single month he puts them all together in a darling little quarter-fold mini and sends them out to subscribers (like me). Just think about how gorgeous that system is… The artist lives and creates each day, and then lovingly mails you the month’s accumulation.Matt’s comics deal with funky conversations, pets, strange moments of personal hygiene, travel, and of course the slowly shifting seasons. The OCTOBER 2007 issue (#15) includes Matt’s amazing round-up of all the cartoonists he met at Small Press Expo (SPX) in Maryland – 68 little cartoon portraits in all.
Matt publishes his comics regularly at http://www.reidsrow.com/ … but these are the sort of comics you’ll want to read on paper, with a cup of tea at your side and your favorite type of small animal sleeping on your lap. The style has evolved from a mixture of James Kochalka and Chris Ware to an intriguingly sensitive, personal romp through fun shapes of light and dark, line and space, cats and yogurt. Matt also includes fun articles (like a yogurt recipe, for instance) in each issue. Thank you, Matt Reidsma, for renewing my faith in mail-order comics communication!
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Thanks, Marek!
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