Carrie McNinch writes and illustrates a very beautiful comic zine. Super expressive and simple drawings that are eye catching and absorbing. Share her pain as she tells depressing stories of her life. Lately, issues have been focusing on drinking, her love life, being queer, and inner turmoil.
Carrie McNinch writes and illustrates a very beautiful comic zine. Super expressive and simple drawings that are eye catching and absorbing. Share her pain as she tells depressing stories of her life. Lately, issues have been focusing on drinking, her love life, being queer, and inner turmoil. We just got a whole slew of ASSWHINE backissues from Tree of Knowledge!!)
Carrie McNinch returns to zines after a three year absence! This issue of the long running series is a bit of a departure from the previous 14 in both size (mini rather than digest) and style, as the drawings within are a bit looser than usual. Asswhine #15 documents the month of January 2005. After a very long dry spell of not drawing, Carrie forced herself to draw a comic a day as a form of self-therapy. Most of the comix within illustrate Carrie's constant struggles with anxiety and drinking, interspersed with observations of the world around her. As always, Carrie's comix pack a visceral punch that few zines can achieve. STRONGLY RECCOMENDED.
Carrie's autobiographical comics are unmistakable and have a style all her own. This issue (#16) consists of stories of Carrie's on-and-off drinking binges and her enduring efforts to overcome personal adversity. Great personal intimate look into her life and unique perspective.
"I find it, constantly, amazing to find that Carrie's intelligent comic drawing is done in a very spontaneous nature (or so I gather). Carrie deals with her life in a way that's both funny & profoundly sad. She's got my heart, yeah. ;P" -D
Carrie McNinch and friends tell great stories about food and cooking in this comic anthology. Classy stuff that's all the rave. Recipes for all sorts of fun things as well as people's obsession with food.
In this issue, Indian buffets, potato burritos, and Shawn Granton's tips for cheap eats on the road.
Carrie McNinch, author of the long-running zine "The Assassin and the Whiner" and definitive pioneer of the autobiographic comics movement, returns to the genre she helped create. Tracing a year in her life, "I Want Everything to be Okay" is a funny, tender, honest and ultimately, hopeful story of a woman haunted by depression and alcoholism as she rebuilds her life from the inside out. We can hope that it is the first step in seeing Carrie's regular reappearance in comics publishing!
Part of Carrie McNinch's triumphant comeback! As a commemoration of her new sketchbook, she made a new set of 3 panel daily comics in the spirit of Snakepit! What fun! A continued fight with drinking as well as a slow recovery thanks to green tea, lemons in the sky, drawing comics (how meta), swimming, a big fire, and getting acupuncture. Hurrah for more from Carrie!
Here's the second installment of Carrie "THE ASSASSIN AND THE WHINER" McNinch's new comic. Carrie got into the groove of drawing a daily journal comic a la Snakepit (it is inevitable that every journal comic will get compared to Snakepit these days) and is sharing it with us after a long draught in her comics production. This issue covers Nov 27 2006 to February 23rd 2007 and talks about acupuncture, running in the Hollywood Hills, eating food, hanging with her folks, eating more food, loving the cats, rockin' out to Led Zeppelin, being "cold" (which in Los Angeles is a relative term), and getting over depression. If you've loved Carrie's comics in the past, you'll love this one. If you've never read any of her stuff before, this makes a great introduction.
A new one from Carrie McNinch! This one is a bit different, and she herself says so. These daily panels chronicle Carrie's trip to Rome and Venice, Italy. And when in Rome, Carrie sets her sights on the types of goals we all might: To find both the best coffee and the best pizza! There are also visits to beautiful historical sites, and of course, guest appearances by cats--hers, and others. What more could you want in a zine? I'd say not much.
Number four, close on the heals of number three! Carrie's back in the U.S, quickly exhausting her supply of Roman coffee beans. She's back to her routines of jogging and acupuncture, as well as her constant struggle not to drink. She frets over the dryness in L.A, and the possibility of brush fires where she lives. Carrie also worries about her seeming inability to have a girlfriend when her childhood friends are married with high school age children. This daily panel comic serves as a perfect counterpoint to Snakepit's glorification of drinking. It looks a little more like my daily life at least: cats, movies, reading, and wild-life encounters.
You Don't Get There from here, initially written as a tribute to Snakepit and his 3 panel a day comics, has come into it's own. It's Snakepitty, but different. There's less partying and more trying to quit drinking. Where Snakepit does bong-hits, Carrie goes for runs and gets acupuncture. At the same time, it's not all grown up, as Carrie dreads jury duty and gets a Webkinz (ask your younger siblings). This issue features commentary on the Southern Californian fires and on radiation therapy. If you like getting absorbed into the daily life of someone, and particularly a queer woman, this zine's for you.
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