I’ve been really enjoying the web-comic series Dean Haspiel (artist of Jonathan Ames’ The Alcoholic and Harvey Pekar’s The Quitter) has been editing over at Smith Magazine, titled Next Door Neighbor. The stories are basically short slice-of-life pieces by the creators themselves involving their neighbors. Some of the stories highlight talents such as Jonathan Ames and Nick Bertozzi, and Harvey Pekar and Rick Veitch. Though my personal favorites include Elizabeth Genco and Mike Jasorka’s college crush story, and Kevin Colden’s story of a terrible musician living in his building. We all know how that is. This is a great collection from a premiere web-magazine that is responsible for such award-worthy web-comics as A.D.: After the Deluge and one of my favorite books of the year: Shooting War.
