Pond Smelt (Digital Edition) by Jane Mai
(2013)
52 pages | Sad Humans/Sad Animals
Written & illustrated by Jane Mai
(This digital edition is scanned from the original riso-printed book, so it has a cool and dirty look.)
Janey moves to a new town where she doesn't know anybody. It's not bad, just a little lonely. She becomes friends with a wolf named Lobo and tries to fish. Some people say this book reminds them of Animal Crossing.
". . . [brings] together themes of outsider status, belonging, difference, isolation . . . It's just a very good comic and I highly recommend it."
Zainab Akhtar, Comics & Cola
The digital edition (a.k.a. Super Pond Smelt) includes 20 bonus pages with secret notes, extra drawings, two one-page comics, and an interview with the author, plus the three-page Pond Smelt II.
Read a preview of Pond Smelt here!
(You might also be interested in Mai's other Peow books, like Soft, a lesbian vampire romance, or P.E.O.W., a collection of painfully embarrassing autobiographical comics, or Mai Mai Mai: The Jane Mai Digital Editions Collection, which includes all three books.)