Minicomic

[citation needed] Many of these typical sizes are convenient for artists using standard office supplies: a US letter page can be folded in half to make a digest, or in quarters for a minicomic.

[citation needed] The earliest and most popular comics in mini- and digest sizes—predating not only the term minicomic, but even the standard comic-book format—were the anonymous and pornographic Tijuana bibles of the 1920s.

[3] In the 1970s and early 1980s, Clay Geerdes's Comix World published numerous popular minicomics, and Artie Romero's Everyman Studios created dozens of titles with full color covers.

Matt Feazell's popular Cynicalman mincomics, which began in 1980, utilize the US letter page folded in quarters; the same format used by Alfred Huete's award-winning DADA mini.

[4] Michael Dowers' Starhead Comix published many minicomics throughout the latter half of the 1980s, before the company moved to traditional comic book printing and distribution.

The first one, titled Open Season: the Mini Comic, included work from Jaime Hernandez, Sergio Aragonés, Guy Colwell, Eddie Campbell, Bryan Talbot, Val Mayerik, Scott Shaw, Howard Cruse, Angela Bocage, Stephen Bissette, Mario Hernandez, Larry Marder, Mary Fleener, David A. Cherry, Joshua Quagmire, Clayton Moore, Phoebe Gloeckner, Steve Lafler, Terry Beatty, William Stout, J. R. Williams, Rick Geary, and Paul Mavrides.

Comic book series like Jessica Abel's Artbabe, Julie Doucet's Dirty Plotte,[5] and Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve[6] all started out as self-published minicomics before being picked up by legitimate publishers.

In 2003, cartoonists Andy Hartzell[7] and Jesse Reklaw co-founded Global Hobo Distro, a distributor dedicated to hand-made and hard-to-find comics that was partnered with Last Gasp.