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Crucial Comix
@crucialcomix.bsky.social
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A cartoonist-run small press. We publish narrative nonfiction comics and offer affordable comics-making classes. 💅
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Gorgeous new comic by @auilix.bsky.social ✏️ "Failing beautifully: Pole dance taught me to embrace myself—even what I'd seen as my failures." www.crucialcomix.com/comic/failin...
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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New comic just dropped about the horrors of wearing a bra. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/bras-w...
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New class: Raising and Drawing Our Kids Through Chaos is for anyone with young kids in their life who wants to make comics about navigating this difficult political era. www.crucialcomix.com/product/rais...
October 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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New comic: Sobriety has been a lonely road, but I made it out alright. // By @danielgwilson.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/cranbe...
October 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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New comic: As a mental health researcher, hope often feels unjustified when the reality of our brains is so complicated. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/connec...
September 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Ravioli Unraveled: The comic essay no one asked for about that commercial where the can of raviolis follows that little girl home. By @darrenvogtart.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/raviol...
September 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Crucial Comix is one year old today! We're celebrating our birthday by starting a Patreon, so we can be financially sustainable for the long haul. ✊ Check it out and thanks for supporting independent artists: www.patreon.com/c/CrucialComix
Since we launched a year ago, we've run 33 workshops and classes, published 64 comics, paid cartoonists $6473, and paid artists $18000 to teach comics classes. Nice work! What's next? We're starting a Patreon to cover the cost of running the site, to pay our editors, and to have a larger budget for publishing more nonfiction comics. We're in this for the long haul! In prioritizing payments to artists, we haven't been paying our editors (Audra and Shay) for running the publication. We want Crucial to be sustainable and not flame out like so many independent media outlets. Comics are rooted in collaboration, in sharing your weird, wild voice without censorship or control. The funding comes from our community—that's you.
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New comic: Creative Spark by @egogala.bsky.social - As an artist, I use all kinds of technological tools. So why does AI feel distinctly repulsive to me? www.crucialcomix.com/comic/creati...
Kristen reaches out from a pixelated version of herself. The title of the comic reads "Creative Spark: As an artist, I use all kinds of technological tools. So why does AI feel distinctly repulsive to me?"
September 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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New comic by Tenli Yavneh: My mother had a long decline due to dementia. Reading her diaries after she passed helped me reconnect with who she was. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/dear-d...
August 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Want to learn about editing comics? Our comics editing class is now up for fall! In this interactive five-session class, practice editing nonfiction comics while also improving your own. www.crucialcomix.com/product/edit...
August 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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In "The Last Soviet Artist" published by @nplusonemag.com, cartoonist Victoria Lomasko documents the bravery of Belarusian protests in 2020. Read an excerpt here: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/a-trip...
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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For cisgender people, gender-affirming care is just called "healthcare." A reflective comic by Al Benbow: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/why-wo...
August 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A beautiful new comic by Joy Alicia Raines shares her deep feeling of loneliness—and how a group of strangers helped her reconnect to the world. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/fighti...
August 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Artist Rachel Lichtman reflects on the dehumanizing process of having to share details of her private life just to get an ADA bus pass. #graphicmedicine www.crucialcomix.com/comic/yield/
A person holds up a sign that says Yield as the artist Rachel is surrounded by question marks. Headline reads: Yield - to survive as a disabled person, I have to give away so much of myself.
August 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Chronic Illness Comics Club is a free monthly #graphicmedicine meetup for people making art about chronic illness. This Sunday's theme: "Mapping Your Chronic Illness" hosted by @zareenc.bsky.social RSVP here: www.crucialcomix.com/product/chro...
A smiling mug of tea and mason jar full of drawing supplies.
August 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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A new comic explores the surreal and mundane experience of going into a treatment program for depression and anxiety—and how even having hope feels like a victory. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/its-no...
July 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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New comic by Junnie Lannes: Roleplaying games helped me realized I'm trans. A game like D&D can be a safe place to find new sides of yourself. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/charac...
July 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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To fight pollution, in 1989 Mexico City passed a law to limit the number of cars on the road. How did that turn out? 🚗 New comic by @merfishcomics.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/hoy-no...
July 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"Sometimes I feel like my brain is only half mine." A powerful memoir comic about having OCD: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/ocd-an...
July 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A gorgeous new comic about family, land, and protest against mining in Arizona by artist Ree Artemisa. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/the-la...
The land is an ancestor we refuse to abandon
July 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A beautiful comic by @niedos.bsky.social reflecting on the anniversary of the #Pulsenightclub shooting: Pulse was the first place that felt like home for me as a queer person. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/coming...
Queer people drawn in black and white dance under a rainbow. Comic title: "Coming out of the storm."
June 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A powerful and gorgeous new comic from @kayte8.bsky.social on reckoning with a history of abuse. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/in-lie...
May 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Gender-affirming care isn't called "gender-affirming care" when it's for cisgender people. It's just called "healthcare." New comic by Al Benbow: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/why-wo...
Comic title: Why Wouldn't I Want That? Gender-affirming care for trans people is hotly debated, but for cisgender people, it's just called "healthcare.”
May 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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✨ New comic: I started thinking of my long COVID as a survival reality show... Naked and Afraid.
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Naked and Afraid of Long Covid, written in green on the background of a savannah.
May 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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New comic: Keeping Secrets by Judy Powell - a powerful memoir comic about not feeling safe to share a story of sexual assault. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/keepin...
May 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM