Zdarsky Comic News: Eighteen Months I Can't Get Back

by Chip Zdarsky, Matt Fraction (Foreword/Midword/Afterword)

Finally! All eighteen issues of the award-losing free magazine collected in a non-free format! Featuring funny stuff and interviews with comic creators like SCOTT SNYDER, GAIL SIMONE, DENIZ CAMP, JAMES TYNION IV, BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, TINI HOWARD, EVE EWING and more! I swear, this will be the only time I print this thing and it will be ”to-order,” so if you want any, now's the time! Also, it’s a COMIC SHOP EXCLUSIVE! I love you, comic shops. -Chip (Zdarsky)

Genres: Comics

Paperback

Published January 1, 2026

About the author

Chip Zdarsky is a Canadian comic book artist and journalist. He was born Steve Murray but is known by his fan base as Chip Zdarsky, and occasionally Todd Diamond. He writes and illustrates an advice column called Extremely Bad Advice for the Canadian national newspaper National Post's The Ampersand, their pop culture section's online edition. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies and Monster Cops.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Peter Derk · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel a great kinship with Chip Zdarsky. I, too, have created terrible marketing ideas and schemes that end up costing me money.

For example, patreon. I’ve used this for a few years now, and every year I do something called merchmas. It’s a holiday where I send out themed merchandise, which is fun and also a way to apologize for always sending out the offered print newsletters late.

The problem is, I like doing stupid little projects, so the merch ends up far, far outweighing the income I make from patreon.

Maybe part of the problem is that I try to at least make things people might use. No phone case shit or keychains or whatever. No, I make things like, this year, a foldable, machine washable baseball cap, perfect for sweaty times and packing in a bag. Well, perfect in theory, if it wasn’t emblazoned with the phrase “Ask me about my favorite podcast host’s hemorrhoidectomy.”

What’s more embarrassing, having a podcast, having a hemorrhoidectomy, or having a SECOND hemorrhoidectomy within 4 months of the first?

Having a podcast is more embarrassing. Hemorrhoidectomy is more disgusting, though. Although I have learned the correct spelling of hemorrhoid, which is something to take away from the experience, I suppose.

[Christoph Weber · Rating 2 out of 5]

At first I liked it. But then it got boring and repetetive. Pretty soon actually.