KEEP GRIM CITY WEIRD

Happy Birthday, Beatrix! ☀️ 🌈 There’s a lot to say about Bea but on her special day I’d like to think back to where it all started. This is the very first page draft I sketched out viciously from behind the table while helping out @june--box vend at event. It’s also the first time I ever talked about Grim City and what I meant to me in public when I met @/sickdaymagazine (insta) for the first time and we talked shit about the current art scene in the digital age and how important physical media is, more importantly how much community means when it comes down to it. I pitched Grim back then as more of a “wouldn’t it be cool,” but now we’re really doing it. 1 year later, we have 100+ pages and Beatrix in some weird way has made me so many new friends and memories in my community by having something I feel passionate about to share and a genuine curiosity about what makes others’ passionate, that similar strike of lightning.

🌈 💿 Happy Friday!!! It’s been a minute since we shared BTS, check out below for process pics ↘️

Happy Monday, but not a Grim City Monday, remember we post new pages biweekly now.. so can’t be all that happy…. Oh, wait! You can reread Grim City on our socials now, starting TODAY!

Happy Grim Monday, freaks!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS‼️I hope everyone's day was spent surrounded by love and laughter, and with family - whether it's the one you're born with or the one you chose.

It's been a radical past few months of Grim City finally launching, and once again we want to say we're so grateful for everyone who checks up on us every Monday update or catches up with a random binge - There's no comic if there's no one to deliver it's message to.

There's an endless list of ways to say that message. Take that chance on yourself. Try again. Don't just quit before you start. Fail forward. Our team is just four artist friends with varying comic experience who decided to work together because we loved this world we dreamed up, and it's really been one of the highest rewarding experience of this year. So please. Do that thing you've wanted to do in 2026. There's more regret in not trying than failing.

A spotlight on this chapter cover and choice of title: We're big fans of the alter egos at the end of Daria episodes, and of the trope of song names for chapter titles!

Chapter 3's cover and title is inspired by Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson and "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John.

“I chose this song to introduce Chico because this will foreshadow the future of their relationship and all its ups and downs and possibilities. I like that the song is a conversation between two people who have been hurt before but choosing to stick it out because it feels right… despite how uncomfortable and vulnerable something new can be, especially after crashing and landing on your ass.”

And Moonrise is a really great coming of age movie about two weirdo kids running away together to build their own world before a great storm. My hope is that people can see Grim City as a coming of age piece for those in their later 20s, still figuring things out in a world that's more doomed and messy than advertised in our childhoods. We don't have to be doomed forever. We can even save each other too.

It's the best part of Monday...A NEW GRIM CITY UPDATE!!! 💖❤️🦅💥

And we've reached 1k subs on Webtoon! Thanks everyone for joining this ride, you keep us going! 🥰

It's GRIM Monday!!💥🦅☠️