Mylo

Mady G’s illustrations are seriously a blast! Beautifully inked with smooth, exaggerated expressions, their art takes me back to 90′s cartoons like Ren & Stimpy or Rocko’s Modern Life. But with a nice queer twist! 

Drawn in the same cartoony style, their autobio comics literally feels like reading a page from a diary. I feel like I’m invading their personal space as they discuss intimate thoughts on anxiety, depression and more importantly, their identity as a nonbinary trans-person. And unlike most diary comics explaining events in an artist’s life, reading Mady’s comics feels like having a close friend confide in you. 

Because of Mady, I’m on a quest to read more nonbinary identity comics (I’m open to recommendations!) <3

You can see more of Mady’s work at: http://madygcomics.tumblr.com/

Sarah Welch is an illustrator and comic artist based out of Houston, Texas. She is my favorite illustrator and one of my favorite humans.

Only Humid is part III of her Endless Monsoon series. The series explores the unexpected and ever changing process we call life. That which can only be paralleled by the unexpected and ever changing weather of the Gulf Coast. The narratives are at times surreal and other times too real. What makes Welch a star, for me, is her ability to capture the wallpaper of existence, the constant backgrounds of our geographical places that somehow mark the moments of our life. What I mean to say is no one can capture the half dead aloe plant sitting on your kitchen table, the one you ignore daily as you eat stale cereal every day before you go to work better than Sarah Welch.

Only Humid is filled with humans, and at times dogs, doing their thing in front of beautiful renderings of carpets, shower tiles, and foliage. These drawing are only highlighted more with the stellar Riso printing done by Mystic Multiples, Welch’s artistic partner. My copy of Only Humid arrived in the mail with a print that needs to be framed and hung in my apartment and a printed stamp that I pray every day not to lose because it is so beautiful.