Katie Lane and Angela Fanche
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I've seen Katie Lane's comics on Austin English's Domino Books site and elsewhere on the internet, but really got interested in their multidisciplinary approach to comics when I recently read this epic talk between the artist and writer (and now editor) and COMICS BLOGGER editor Thomas Campbell in 2023. Following is a list of Katie Lane's work I've found online with quotes from reviews and sites, and most importantly where to buy her books!
EARLY COMICS COLLABORATIONS (story only as Lane Yates):
THE GARDEN art: Garrett Young 2019
"I saw Garrett's work on twitter, and I just hit him up. I had no twitter followers. I had made no comics, whatever. I had nothing out, and I sent him a DM and was like, hey, I have a script for a comic. I really like your drawing. Do you want to draw this comic? I think you'd be perfect for it. And he did, and he gave me a really good rate, and it was just kind of miraculous." - Katie Lane (COMIICS BLOGGER #3)
IF ON ACCOUNT OF SUNDAY art: Michael R Muller (2020)
"Well — maybe. To be sure, there’s grotesquerie and sacrifice and, in the end, inspiration to be found in this comic, but it’s shot through with a deep undercurrent of vaguely Faulkner-esque Southern Gothic, plenty of deadpan humor, and even a dose of temporary common-law bliss. Cosmic revelation hits the trailer park? You’d better believe it." -Ryan Carey
URSULA art: Erika Price 2021 still available: print digital
"Yeah, I think that Erika speaks to this...she lets me be this despairing writer person that I have resistance to. I try to make my comics kind of funny. There are moments of humor in every comic I've made because I think that that's just part of me. But she was very much down for me to go fully bleeding heart romance comic shit, which I was very happy to do that with her." - Katie Lane (Comics Blogger #3)
REVIEWS:
CRISIS ZONE Simon Hanselmann (as Lane Yates)
SOLRAD 10/22/20
"Chickstrobution: Proliferating a Message In Images" (as Lane Yates)
SOLRAD 12/15/20
MR. BOOP Alec Robbins (as Lane Yates)
SOLRAD 3/9/21
CRASH SITE Nathan Cowdry (as Lane Yates)
SOLRAD 7/8/21
SOLO COMICS/ANTHOLOGIES:
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Look, this computer-generated strip has been running on Instagram and various and sundry (and, it would appear, perhaps rotating — but I could be wrong) other venues since 2018, but I only caught up with it just shortly prior to Yates collecting the first 38 chapters/segments/installments/whatever in physical form, so this debut publication is a de facto “reprint” that just so happens to be seeing actual print for the first time." -Ryan Carey
ISOLATED: A PANDEMIC COMICS ANTHOLOGY edited by Tana Oshima (2021) (short as Lane Yates)
"Roll call, in order of appearance : Celine Hudreaux on covers, with interior stories by Pedro Pablo Bacallao, E.A. Bethea, Angela Fanche, Ana Galvan, Jessica Garcia, November Garcia, Ness Ilene Garza, Marie Gilot, Kim Lam, Drew Lerman, Lui Mort, Roman Muradov, Hue Nguyen, Weng Pixin, Areeba Siddique, and Lane Yates. Veteran readers of my blathering will no doubt recognize many a cartoonist I’ve sung the praises of included in this list of luminaries[...]" -Ryan Carey
NANCY STUDIES (2023) unpublished/online only
"I think Bushmiller is very present on the page, which is kind of what I wanted to do with the Nancy Study stuff, where I wanted to be present in that comic. That comic is a diary comic. If you read the text in the comic, it's a mix of answers that people have submitted about their personal lives and also just minute details from my personal life that are so buried and contextual that you wouldn't...they're not really that revealing, but to me, they're very rich moments." - Katie Lane (COMICS BLOGGER #3)
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| From COMICS BLOGGER #3 |
SINE QUA NON (2023) (solo as Katie Lane)
"I think this is one of the best pieces of art yet from Katie Lane, who has produced fascinating experimental comics in the past. Here, we find her drawing in her own hand, working with very direct subject matter and achieving something that is powerful the minute you lay eyes on it. An experience you can only have with a self published comic, this is a work to contend with...I absolutely love the drawing here."
-Austin EnglishAlso available
here and
here
DEATH SPARX #1 (2024) edited by Thomas Campbell (short as Katie Lane)
"BIGGEST SURPRISE: Katie Lane's story 'Reference Image' continues her introspectively strange and sexual 2024 body of work (along with SINE QUA NON)."
-RJ CaseyOrder
here here
CASHIERS DU CINEMA #2 (2024) (short comic as Katie Lane)
"Lately there's been a renaissance of cartoonists working in movie theaters, a perfect job for people who want to draw while on the clock. Welch and Cardoza have assembled this great zine about working as cashiers, and it's everything great about zine making: focused on a specific theme and told by the people working the jobs themselves, many of them brilliant cartoonists. Great use of the form and just a satisfying read."
-Austin EnglishOrder at
Domino or
here
BERNADETTE MAGAZINE (2024) (co-editor w/Angela Fanche) (short as Katie Lane)
"The anthology is different, though, because I want people to understand it. I want people to get it. When I'm editing, I'm thinking to myself, 'How are they best going to understand this idea that we're having together ', curation needs to be understandable."
-Katie LaneSally Madden instigates a discussion between editors Katie Lane and Angela Fanche for
TCJ. Helen Chazan reviews the anthology for
same.
COWLICK #7 (2024) edited by Floyd Tangeman (short as Katie Lane)
"One of the cool things about COWLICK, is that it's not all comics people, it's people who make something that resembles comics sometimes,, or their work makes sense alongside comics, but don't really think of themselves primarily as cartoonists, and that produces nice work sometimes."
-Katie Lane
PERCEPTION THROUGH A GAP (solo, as Katie Lane) (
2024)
"Hi everyone! I have a new comic out and ready for purchase. It's called 'Perception Through a Gap' it's a selection of stories that will probably be part of a larger book project to come. I hope you enjoy!" - Katie Lane (instagram)
Order
here here
CRAM #4 (2024) edited by Andrew Alexander (short as Katie Lane)
"The drawing on hand here ranges from clean line to rat line, the layouts from 30-panel pages to the full page splashes, all in the service of highly imaginative comics." - Copacetic Comics
B'DETTE (2024) (half Angela Fanche/half as Katie Lane)
Order from the
artist
COMICS BLOGGER #9 (2024) edited by Thomas Campbell (short as Katie Lane)
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