Bears do it with their sensitive lips and tongues. We human foragers tend to use our fingertips, but I've been known to get on all fours and do it like a bear, just for the experience. A bear strips blueberries from their branches, purple and green alike, inhaling as many as 30,000 in a day. These are wild blueberries, about the size of your pinkie nail, and oh were they sweet and plenteous in Northern Minnesota this summer...
John Porcellino Book order (chronological)
John Porcellino is an acclaimed creator of minicomics, comics, and graphic novels, celebrated for his seminal series King-Cat Comics. His work delves into personal experiences and introspective themes like mental health and philosophical contemplation, valued for its conciseness and profound resonance. Porcellino's distinctive style, noted for its ability to distill the feeling of being alive with just a few lines and words, has inspired a generation of cartoonists, solidifying his comics as masterpieces in the medium.
From Lone Mountain
- 303 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A view of America - as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places
King-Cat Comics: Map of My Heart
- 359 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of The King-Cat ZineMap of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino's seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics and Stories , which he started self-publishing in 1989. In this collection, while Porcellino is living in isolation and experiencing the pain of divorce, he crafts a melancholic, tender graphic-ballad of heartbreak and reflection.Known for his sad, quiet honesty, rendered in his signature deceptively minimalist style, Porcellino has a command of graphic storytelling as sophisticated as the medium's more visually intricate masters. Few other artists are able to so expertly contemplate the sadness, beauty, and wonder of life in so few lines.