Comix Reading List #50-#57: David Lasky Zines x 8

50. MANIFESTO ITEMS 11 (David Lasky) Patreon

This is a magazine-sized full color collection of a wide variety of comic strips created by David Lasky in 2021. I particularly liked the take off on "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work", it's a departure from most of the other work in here.

51. COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE 4 (Push Pull Press) Patreon

This is a local Seattle anthology to which David Lasky contributed four pages, some really nice color work in here.

52. JAGGED EDGES: THE MADNESS OF WRITERS/CANARIES IN OUR COALMINE (David Lasky/Liz Argall) Patreon

A good old-fashioned flip book with Liz Argall writing and David drawing "The Madness of Writers", and, conversely, David writing and Liz drawing "Canaries in Our Coalmine".

53. APRIL POEMS 2021 (David Lasky)

What it says, it's all of David Lasky's daily poetry from April 2021! Text with only a few illustrations.

54. POETRY MINI-COMIC (David Lasky) Patreon

I loved this little collage zine of one of Lasky's poems from the above book.

55. MANIFESTO ITEMS 12 (David Lasky) Patreon

Three wordless abstract comics stories with some added color. Pure gold.

56. MANIFESTO ITEMS 13 (David Lasky) Patreon

This is another thick collection of a years worth of mostly poetry comics and poetry from April 2022. More brilliant color and beautiful experimental comics by David Lasky. My favorite is the colorful abstract strip on the bottom of page 14 (counting front covers). However, there's strong work on almost every page, along with MANIFESTO ITEMS #11 this is the best way to track Lasky's progress as an artist.

57. HAIKU SUMMER (David Lasky) Patreon

According to the notes inside David Lasky taught a twelve week course on Haiku comics in 2021, these are his comic strip illustrations of each lesson. Did you know Lasky is a prolific comics art teacher? He has a youtube channel, I'm not sure if any of the video lessons are public, check out one of his classes if you get the chance.

April is National Poetry Month, as you would know if you subscribed to David Lasky's Patreon. So what better way to celebrate than focusing on my favorite proponent of poetry in comics. Lasky shares many abstract comics illustrating his haiku (and other) poetry on his Patreon account, and at a very reasonable price you get a big package of comics collecting his various works over the year. I misplaced my package from two years ago so this is actually two years worth of Lasky-ness, not proof that David is the Jack Kirby of poetry comics!