A Spotlight Feature: Waiting, A Comics Anthology

Contributors: Sami Brice, Sara Stafford, Rachel Suhs, Nat Brownlee, Hikari Kobayashi, Tomas Vallecillo, Jen Braunstein, Mei Lian Hoe, Alex Sammas, Syd Sanders, Rowan Fridley, AlfaFilly, Jordan Scribner, Audra Winslow

St. Louis had its 2019 coldsnap a couple weeks ago. I woke up on a dreary Monday morning to find that my freshly cut lawn had been coated with a heavy dusting of snow. The irony is that I had put off mowing my lawn for weeks hoping that this precise thing would happen, only to find myself looking outside and saying “now’s the time” to myself. There’s an added layer of meaning given that this early to winter and the blitzing holiday seasons tend to put me in an anticipatory or hibernation-esque state depending on the day. I’m waiting for trick or theaters. I’m waiting for family to visit or me to visit family. I’m waiting for the warm weather to return. I’m waiting for the new year. In this particular case, I’m waiting for a new decade as well. Sample pages by Tomas Vallecillo and Nat Brownlee As such, it’s only fitting that when I asked for a reading recommendation from a friend to keep me occupied as I continue to fight off the cold, they directed to me Waiting, A Comics Anthology. Edited by Sami Brice, Waiting is the end product of a successful campaign that ran this summer, generating nearly $12k from nearly 250 backers to produce a comics anthology centered around the titular concept of waiting. Specifically in the editor’s own words it’s “a comic anthology …