It's a webcomic about ice hockey, not waiting tables.

June 7, 2023 1:42 PM

Today is the tenth anniversary of Check, Please!, a completed webcomic by Ngozi Ukazu about Canadian university ice hockey, friendship, anxiety, love and pie. Available in print thanks to a series of wildly successful kickstarter campaigns, it nevertheless remains fully readable online for readers who like joy.

Others have sung its praises here previously and previouslier, but a tenth anniversary deserves a fresh airing.

Ngozi's other comics projects include a team of art students must playing softball to get athletic scholarships and clear their loans in Bunt!; and Barda, an upcoming YA graphic novel about the DC Comics new god.

posted by Lorc (4 comments total)

I hope this fits here.

Hit Somebody! (The hockey song)
posted by Splunge at 3:59 PM on June 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

I really enjoyed reading these in print (I think I found out about it from metafilter). Engaging, low-stakes, cute, good pacing.
posted by latkes at 7:42 PM on June 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

One of my favorite graphic novel discoveries in recent years. I really like that Ngozi fell in love with hockey while researching and writing a very different, hockey-based screenplay called "Hardy." The end result was "Check, Please," which served as a kind of a palate cleanser after the somewhat more serious "Hardy."

The idea of a non-hockey fan becoming one through intellectually engaging with the sport is fascinating to me, a long-time hockey player (and sometime graphic novelist).
posted by jordantwodelta at 8:02 PM on June 7, 2023 [1 favorite]

I was appearing regularly on a comics-related podcast around the time Check, Please! came out and we affectionately called it 'gayhockeypiecomics'. I've drifted away from the scene since then and forgot to check if this had ever been completed, thanks for the reminder!
posted by terretu at 2:26 AM on June 8, 2023 [1 favorite]