Once Upon A Time… There Was A Mouse!
When I saw Dan Clowes give his talk at CXC (in 2023) he made a point that really stuck with me about the unreliability of memory. His mother and brother had just passed away, and while he had faith in their ability to tell their shared family history together, now that it was just him he had no way to verify anything that he might have misremembered and felt their shared history slipping away. Why am I bringing this up? Like I said, it stuck with me, but it’s relevant to my review of this comic. I got this at CXC 2024, and there’s a kinda sorta name (good old Google helped me out with an actual name), but no website, no way to find anything more about them. Then when I did find them, this comic wasn’t listed as being for sale. So, we’re left with my memory, and since I stopped by this table alone: was this tiny comic a con freebie to give people a sample of her work? Or is just currently sold out on her website? The story is fairly simple, but adorable: a mouse is enjoying the heck out of a chunk of cheese, but one day that cheese disappears. The mouse then sets out on a quest to find more cheese (but a short quest, as the comic is only 7 single panel pages long), but how does the journey end up? It’s a cute comic, and worth a buck or two if you see it at a convention. Or if it’s free, it’s especially worth it. Just don’t count on me being the one to remember which of those options is true.
