A Year of Free Comics – Carta Monir’s Poignant RIPMOM
Interview – Carta Monir on Secure Connect, Game Boy Printer, Video Games Comics and her New Micro-Press
Talking to Carta Monir about Secure Connect, Game Boy Printer, Video Games Comics and her New Micro-Press
A Year of Free Comics: Passing by Carta Monir
There’s a reason why I chose Carta Monir as the cartoonist of 2017. She’s an incredibly talented artist and is capable of illustrating deeply personal story. There’s always this sort of bittersweet quality to her work that I find appealing. There’s this palpable trauma and sadness underlying her work, just as there’s this sort of […]
A year of free comics – Carta Monir on the Stealth Mechanics of Hitman’s Agent 47
We’ve featured Carta Monir for the “year of free comics” three times this year. I’m proud of that. I’m grateful that I’m able to experience her comics. Carta’s work is phenomenal. Her work breaks my heart. She strikes that delicate balance between melancholia and lightness. She whispers these dark, traumatic and lived story with every […]
A year of free comics – Lara Croft Was My Family by Carta Monir
One of the things I recall fondly from my childhood was playing video games with my parents. It has permeated our lives together for as long as I can remember. They had been playing video games long before they had me and they used me as an excuse to keep playing. There’s this photo of […]
A month of free queer themed comics – Tragedy during the end of the world in Carta Monir’s Don’t Wanna Close My Eyes
I’ve been looking more closely at the work of Carta Monir after I saw her live reading of one of her comics at the TCAF Alt Comics 10 event organized by publisher 2dcloud. I was thoroughly impressed with her short webcomic Don’t Wanna Close My Eyes. In Don’t Wanna Close My Eyes, Scott, a high school student, […]