Published by Lydstep Lettuce - April 2017
A5, 66 pages. black and white with colour covers.
£3 (or pay what you feel you can afford) + p&p
This is the third outing for Minor Leagues. Simon sums up the contents as:
"Comics about teenage indiscretions, childhood dreams; writing and diary comics about change and renewal in the face of trauma and loss; Spring scenes, Spring feelings, drawings, that sort of stuff."While writing this issue Simon's dad was diagnosed with cancer, and sadly passed away shortly afterwards. As an autobiographical zine the emotional core of issue 3 centres around the emptiness and bewilderment of sudden loss. But it's not a death comic.
While grief is always personal Simon's work has a way of striking an outward resonance. Minor Leagues doesn't just tell - the combination of image and text creates mood - it evokes. As regular readers will have come to expect there is still humour in the stories and observations, originality in the depiction of the nuances and details of everyday life.
Although largely autobiographical Minor Leagues succeeds due to knowing what to reveal, what to fictionalise, and what to keep private. Simon has written a blog post that details his thoughts during the making of this issue here.
Simon offers a cost price of £2 and a regular price, which is still just £3. This is to enable people who really want to read/buy small press work but can't afford the luxury. "Why?", I hear you ask - Simon answers:
"I think it's important to make this kind of work as available as possible, and I hope this goes some way towards that. I know postage is expensive and life is expensive too"
Support if you can. Buy issue 3 direct from Simon - smoo.bigcartel.com/product/minor-leagues-3
Or visit smoo.bigcartel.com for subscription options.
My reviews of Minor Leagues 1 & 2 are here.
Review by Nathan Penlington
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