Happy Cartoonists Day! Gonna do a thread of my faves

(not strictly gag cartoonists, comix artists, too!)

. @ellen_forney Marvellously drawn, funny, sexy. A highlight of this issue is the insane true story "My Date With Camile Paglia"

Krystine Kryttre. Angular, demented and uniquely dark. Also a close friend of Dori Seda, who's next

Dori Seda. Both adorable and gross. I feel like we could have been friends if we were alive at the same time. I have tried so many times to write a song about my love for her, but they were never good enough (yet!)

Phoebe Gloeckner. It blows my mind how somebody could make something as honest, painful and complicated as Diary of A Teenage Girl.

Sylvie, by Nicole Hollander. She's the sassy feminist, smutty-fiction-writing physic cat-lady I want to grow up to be. Like if Colette was around in the 80's.

Reading Diane Noomin's Didi Glitz was a big influence when I started making comics as a teenager. She showed me how you can make a super exaggerated comic persona out of the ridiculous parts of yourself for true catharsis. And as an editor, Drawing Power is an absolute triumph.

Justin Green. I've only read Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary it's a pioneering masterpiece; thee First autobiographical graphic novel. Justin Green was undiagnosed with OCD when he wrote this, about his fears that his fingers were ray-shooting pen*ses defiling everything

I love Bill Griffith's Zippy. The absurdity, the non-sequiturs, the play on words, the love of old comics, living breathing branding mascots... I often catch up on his daily strips and they're a great, weird comfort these days. And this example segways nicely into the next!

Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy (and Fritzi Ritz). The new ones are great too, but the classics just slap, even if they're not exactly 'funny'.

More of these coming up later!