While "researching" a recent Nexus Graphica, I had reason to look through my collection of Comics Of Unusual Size. This set of the big and small and odd of comicdom offers many gems. Deciding that I really should share some of these largely forgotten and sometime rare pieces, I’m taking you through a tour of the more interesting selections.
Over a three year period in the 1990s, artist Chris Cilla and writer Greg Petix (of the Weird Lovemakers) produced the daily strip "Swonk" for The Arizona Daily Wildcat. The cartoons were initially collected in The Pocket Swonk and the Howling Swonk.
But what is a swonk? The duo attempts an explanation.
Um.. ok…
Like many college strips, the subjects range from college life to politics to life observations.
And like most strips, the humor is hit and miss.
As with many of us raised in the seventies and eighties, their works were heavily influenced by Marvel comics of the era, as evident by the back covers of each volume.
Eventually, the duo compiled a third collection "A Moon, A Girl… Swonk."