How to Draw Intermission: June 2023

Popping in with a list of required comics reading for the month of June.

Howdy, friend.

I just got back from Singapore—and Tokyo!—and my body is having a hard time returning back to my typical Nebraska rhythms. This, in addition to working ceaselessly on my graphic memoir, has made me realize I don’t have the time or energy this month to craft a full new issue of How to Draw.

Instead, I want to showcase the comics I accepted during my stint as guest editor of HAD last month. There were so many incredible submissions and I’m deeply in love with each one I was able to publish. I really hope you’ll check them out, give them a read, and see what I’m fussing about.

• “Snow Leopard” by Laura Catherine Brown

• “Sportsmanship” by Angelo Maneage

• “Mass” by Travis Dahlke

• “Warhol” by Silas Jones

• “Local Art Gallery Hiring Now!! See Below for Details!” by Meg Lubey

• “On a Hill Avoiding Shade” by Nikita Ladd

• “Secret” by Eliza Harris

• “Have You Seen the Moon?” by Hailey Siracky

• “Not a Dream” by Amos Leager

• “Street View” by Olivia Fredricks

• “Enclosure” by Carolyn Supinka

• “A Haiku About the Sun and the Moon and My Wife and My Daughter and Driving in a Car and Running Off Little Sleep” by md wheatley

• “Peanut Butter” by Katie Nieland

• “When the Hand of the Universe Reaches Down and Turns You In the Right Direction” by Julie Alden Cullinane

• “Things I Want to Ask You About White Knighting” by Michelle Wirth & Austin Brady

• “Meet Me in the North Parking Lot After School” by Zane Barrow

• “Sister of Pentacles” by Karah Kemmerly

• “The Canaries” by Isaac George Lauritsen

• “Saginaw Summer” by Katy Haas

I didn’t get to draw as much as I wanted to in Singapore—keeping track of a flock of college kids, doing everything I could to not be dehydrated in that oppressive humidity, and managing our daily activities kept me BUSY. I did bust out this little comic. I’m very much missing papaya milk and wish the US would get its act together and make this a part of our collective diet.

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I’ll be seeing you soon. ♡

– RJR