Gustav Carlson
@backwoodgoat.bsky.social
Ozarks based comic artist. Creator of Backwood Folk, Tourist Unknown, and Eve of the Ozarks.
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My comic series, Backwood Folk, follows the lives and afterlives of a rural hamlet in the Arkansas Ozarks. Each issue is 48 pages of small town gossip, ghosts, and strange creatures. The first two issues are available in big handsome print editions or digital downloads at giftshop.backwoodfolk.com
Still got one thing releasing soon that I don’t quite believe fell on my lap. “This feels insulting to the guy” writing my name next to his kinda stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Still got one thing releasing soon that I don’t quite believe fell on my lap. “This feels insulting to the guy” writing my name next to his kinda stuff.
I'll also being at the Local Author Open House at the Fayetteville Public Library on December 6! Event courtesy of the fine folks @pearlsbooks.bsky.social of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'll also being at the Local Author Open House at the Fayetteville Public Library on December 6! Event courtesy of the fine folks @pearlsbooks.bsky.social of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Hey Springfield friends! Week from today I'll be reading an original story with some visuals as a brief act for the Ozark Jubilee Live Tribute Show at the Historic Fox Theatre! Gunna be a packed night with a lot of cool music and acts!
www.etix.com/ticket/p/629...
www.etix.com/ticket/p/629...
Ozark Jubilee Live: In Memory of Cathryn Cox Lipscomb
Ozark Jubilee Live in Memory of Cathryn Cox Lipscomb Celebrate the History Museum on the Square’s 50th anniversary with Ozark Jubilee Live, a signature fundraising event bringing the spirit of the 1950s nationally syndicated Jubilee into the 21st century. Enjoy an unforgettable evening of live music, comedy, dance, and more, hosted by Jeff Houghton and The Mystery Hour, with performances by Guinevere Goodwin, Maddi Warren, The Creek Rocks, and Nashville headliner Bobby Bare Jr. Celebrat...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hey Springfield friends! Week from today I'll be reading an original story with some visuals as a brief act for the Ozark Jubilee Live Tribute Show at the Historic Fox Theatre! Gunna be a packed night with a lot of cool music and acts!
www.etix.com/ticket/p/629...
www.etix.com/ticket/p/629...
One of the 2026 goals is a new edition of Eve of the Ozarks. Re-edited and with added material to make a full graphic novel out of it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One of the 2026 goals is a new edition of Eve of the Ozarks. Re-edited and with added material to make a full graphic novel out of it.
I get so grumbly how often the interesting things to talk about in regards to Alan Moore often get buried under “he hates everything” or “he’s a kooky wizard!”
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I get so grumbly how often the interesting things to talk about in regards to Alan Moore often get buried under “he hates everything” or “he’s a kooky wizard!”
Had a distance learning AP lit class in high school where we got to pick our own books from a list, and my back to back choice of Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse 5 did a huge number on my worldview.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Had a distance learning AP lit class in high school where we got to pick our own books from a list, and my back to back choice of Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse 5 did a huge number on my worldview.
“How would he know, Gus doesn’t go online” is not something I ever thought I would hear someone say about me. Guess putting in the hours to undo this curse has been working.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“How would he know, Gus doesn’t go online” is not something I ever thought I would hear someone say about me. Guess putting in the hours to undo this curse has been working.
Wrote a little thing about my history with a regional con I frequented before its new ownership. Also Twin Peaks. www.backwoodfolk.com/2025/11/07/r...
Passing Time as Measured By a Regional Con - Backwood Folk
Passing Time as Measured By a Regional Con April 2017, I would receive an e-mail inviting me to be a guest at a comic convention. This was the first time that had ever happened to me. I wasn't new per...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Wrote a little thing about my history with a regional con I frequented before its new ownership. Also Twin Peaks. www.backwoodfolk.com/2025/11/07/r...
That I’ll leave this year with two different variety shows on my resume is definitely one of those things I didn’t plan.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
That I’ll leave this year with two different variety shows on my resume is definitely one of those things I didn’t plan.
Oh word, you are saying we can run candidates people like and want? Can we do more of that?
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Oh word, you are saying we can run candidates people like and want? Can we do more of that?
Bertrum Strom pictured with artistic interpretation of his sighting of the Pink Eye of Po'Dunk from 2011.
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Bertrum Strom pictured with artistic interpretation of his sighting of the Pink Eye of Po'Dunk from 2011.
You see the comings and goings of creative trend ultimatums. “Ugh flashbacks are hack tools for dummies” or whatever. But I think every one of those ultimatums is going for the flavor of the week annoyance versus the central problem that any tool’s a hack tool if you are deploying it unconsciously.
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You see the comings and goings of creative trend ultimatums. “Ugh flashbacks are hack tools for dummies” or whatever. But I think every one of those ultimatums is going for the flavor of the week annoyance versus the central problem that any tool’s a hack tool if you are deploying it unconsciously.
I don’t really complain about the indecipherable posts on wrestling nights or whatever video game festival has a bunch of new ads, so I say bring on the baseball posts.
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I don’t really complain about the indecipherable posts on wrestling nights or whatever video game festival has a bunch of new ads, so I say bring on the baseball posts.
Reposted by Gustav Carlson
Toby Still Had Honey to Spare. A free Backwood Folk Halloween special. Read the full comic at Backwoodfolk.com/honey
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Toby Still Had Honey to Spare. A free Backwood Folk Halloween special. Read the full comic at Backwoodfolk.com/honey
One of those stray thoughts you present like a thesis you've had for years. Today's? Blind boxing or bagging getting more popular as a response to choice paralysis inherent in the age of the streaming/internet infinite library.
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
One of those stray thoughts you present like a thesis you've had for years. Today's? Blind boxing or bagging getting more popular as a response to choice paralysis inherent in the age of the streaming/internet infinite library.
I know a lot of comic artists who look at like film composition and cinematography to see what it can bring to their own medium. Absolutely worth looking at the acting in that same degree. Maybe more vitally actually.
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I know a lot of comic artists who look at like film composition and cinematography to see what it can bring to their own medium. Absolutely worth looking at the acting in that same degree. Maybe more vitally actually.
“Just like Braum’s” I say watching Motel Hell as Farmer Vincent explains that he only distributes within 100 miles to guarantee the freshest ingredients.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Just like Braum’s” I say watching Motel Hell as Farmer Vincent explains that he only distributes within 100 miles to guarantee the freshest ingredients.
Toby Still Had Honey to Spare. A free Backwood Folk Halloween special. Read the full comic at Backwoodfolk.com/honey
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Toby Still Had Honey to Spare. A free Backwood Folk Halloween special. Read the full comic at Backwoodfolk.com/honey
Reposted by Gustav Carlson
TOBY STILL HAD HONEY TO SPARE.
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
TOBY STILL HAD HONEY TO SPARE.
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
TOBY STILL HAD HONEY TO SPARE.
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
TOBY STILL HAD HONEY TO SPARE.
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
My mom would sometimes just find me in zombie makeup or some costume or another failing to menace goats. Wasn’t even Halloween usually.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My mom would sometimes just find me in zombie makeup or some costume or another failing to menace goats. Wasn’t even Halloween usually.
I don’t bemoan the loss of features on any social media too often, but some nights are a real “I’d kill for circles” Sometimes you wanna be messy in front of like twenty chill friends and absolutely no one else.
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I don’t bemoan the loss of features on any social media too often, but some nights are a real “I’d kill for circles” Sometimes you wanna be messy in front of like twenty chill friends and absolutely no one else.
At some point soon spending too much time with my grandparents listening to cassettes of depression era radio is gunna work out for me. This probably isn’t a great sign, but we work with what we get.
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
At some point soon spending too much time with my grandparents listening to cassettes of depression era radio is gunna work out for me. This probably isn’t a great sign, but we work with what we get.
They put it in the papers that I love Lost. (And a really lovely write up on Backwood Folk #2)
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
Local storytellers shift their inspiration to what lurks in the shadows of the Ozarks | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
When the air turns crisp and the Ozarks begin to whisper through the trees, local storytellers shift their inspiration to what lurks in the shadows — the forgotten places, the restless spirits and the...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
They put it in the papers that I love Lost. (And a really lovely write up on Backwood Folk #2)
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
Finishing out our podcast miniseries on a story of Fayetteville Real Estate, Internet forum beef, and Bigfoot. This one has it all, including a parade of some of the most prominent cryptozoologists and Bigfooters dunking on Fayetteville.
On the finale of our October miniseries we find out the easiest route to home ownership in Fayetteville, Arkansas is finding Bigfoot. A story of comment section drama escalating into a wager that would catch the eye of Bigfoot hunters in Episode 4: BIGFOOT HOUSE. Listen now where the podcasts grow.
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Finishing out our podcast miniseries on a story of Fayetteville Real Estate, Internet forum beef, and Bigfoot. This one has it all, including a parade of some of the most prominent cryptozoologists and Bigfooters dunking on Fayetteville.