Consumer Confidence Comics #2

“Dealing with Debt Collections”, another comic for Oregon Consumer Justice. It’s the first of two comics about debt; lawyers Kelly Donovan Jones and Michael Fuller wrote the text, I did the pictures, you can read the whole thing on the Oregon Consumer Justice website in Spanish and English and order copies of the comic for free. It sounds like a couple thousand copies of the first comic have been distributed, and around 700 copies of this comic were preordered before its release!

Cover of comic "Dealing with Debt Collections," featuring a grandfather, mother, and daughter sitting around a kitchen table looking at a debt collection letter with worried but determined expressions.
Comics page titled "the collection call."
A comics page in which a woman pays off her debt over many months, and her family celebrates her.

Note the new (and improved?) font that’s handling the Spanish and English language versions with ease. (Made through Calligraphr again; desperately want to go in with a higher power program to fix the kerning between individual letter combos; the fact that Calligrapher doesn’t do this is my biggest complaint with the program).

Also, I have a newsletter now! It’s this blog, but it arrives in your inbox if you like that kind of thing (I would hate it but respect your different preferences). It’s powered by Buttondown. Based on cadence of past posts I expect to be sending you an email, like, quarterly.

I feel obligated to mention that if you’re getting this as an email, you could pop my URL into your favorite RSS reader instead. I recommend the reader NetNewsWire if you exist in the Apple family of products. The next solo comic I hope to release is a vision for the internet as a useful information ecosystem for me, specifically (my system relies heavily on RSS feeds and having friends who tell me about the cool stuff they find). Look out for that in the new year.

Bonus: excerpts from my house New Years card, printed at the IPRC:

Riso printed New Years cards on blue and yellow paper in purple ink.
The back of a New Years card with the heading "Ends of Eras;" "Audra has a real desk chair now," "Allia's rusty bike rack is finally retired," "On to 2025!"

And with that, on to 2025!

Three people pose in front of a large letter.


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2 responses to “Consumer Confidence Comics #2”

  1. Just want you to know I *love* seeing these posts crop up in my RSS reader. Shay has been singing your praises on this trip down to Ojai, and I think your work is rad as hell. Can’t wait to read your thoughts on the internet info ecosystem (infosystem??) next year. Hope the next few weeks are deliciously chill.

    1. I’ve taken some chill-er weeks and now I’m here to say thank you! I’m delighted these posts are showing up in a real-life RSS reader. I’m tempted to start polling people for this new RSS zine, asking what system(s) do you use to ‘keep up’ with the world. This may be scope creep but I can deal with that later. I think your work is so cool, your comment made my day! Happy New Year!

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