the first comic club meeting (it was awesome)

earlier this year, a vision came to me. i need to start a comic anthology zine with my classmates. or whomever is interested. and since i've been in my connecting with people era, i immediately started asking around, and fairly quickly had a small group of people who said they liked the idea and wanted to participate. (this was very exciting)

on the last march weekend, we finally had our kickoff meeting. on a rainy afternoon, we met at the public library and had some of the most fun three hours i'd had thus far in 2026. we talked through what we expected and wanted the zine and the club to be, talked through the formalities of the comics and collected topic ideas.

being the initiator, i had to make the start, which i never love doing (how do you start meetings? gah), but it took maybe one minute for everyone else to start getting involved and it was so awesome and reassuring to see everyone be so excited about the project and weigh in on everything. it all was incredibly fun. someone even took minutes (or you know. notes) which i thought was awesome. and we decided on a fixed monthly date and time for meetings which is soo reassuring to me personally because now i don't have to go through the endless back and forth of when is everyone free, and i love a fixed recurring appointment. hashtag my routine <3

after getting the organisational stuff out of the way, we did a little collaborative mini-comic game, wherein you have these simple small folding zines, where each page is a panel. you draw a panel and pass it on to the next person, who draws the next panel without knowing what story you were going for. and that goes round until the zine is full. it's insanely fun

one of the comics from that game, the one i started. it's called "Dogwalking"

"can he have a sniff?"

"she's stepped in shit. thanks. my poor nose."

the topic for our first anthology and edition of the comic zine is rituals and i'm very eager to see what everyone comes up with. we're meeting again at the end of april and want to have the zine ready and printed in time to take along to the Comic Salon Erlangen, where some of us are going for uni. wowie. this is gonna be so awesome. and i love finally doing something like this. collaborating with other comic people. making a thing. together. handheart.