A review by saidtheraina
I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Damien Jay, Keith Knight, Rodd Perry, Austin English, Janelle Hessig, Joey Sayers, MariNaomi, Laura Park, Minty Lewis, Abby Denson, Jesse Reklaw, Sarah Glidden, Julia Wertz, Peter Bagge, Aaron Renier, Gabrielle Bell, Alec Longstreth, Kazimir Strzepek, Corinne Mucha, Shannon Wheeler, Emily Flake, Ken Dahl, Shaenon Garrity, Sam Henderson, David Malki, Tom Hart

3.0

Fun little collection of comic artists riffing on real-life personal ads. They vary in length from a page to several, some are anecdotes of the creators actual experiences relating to personals, some use the sequential art medium to give the text a whole new (generally creepy) meaning. It was fun to see the variety of approaches and illustration styles (Wertz includes artists from both the published GN community and the zine community, which is very very cool), although I did see a prevailing theme of mocking the pathetic desperation of the persons who wrote the ads. Most of these feel kinda miserable and anticlimactic, which is fitting since we don't actually know the fate of the ads in almost every case. Fun to discover new artists for to follow, although none of the stories were long enough to convert me to a new style if I didn't have an immediate aesthetic connection. If that makes any sense. It's potluck day and I have very little brain. The end.