Don't You Wish You Could Draw

November 14, 2008 10:48 AM

Chicago jam-comics group Trubble Club boasts an all-star line-up of amazing illustrators, collectively creating surreal, hilarious and somewhat disturbing comics.

I came across the Club via Laura Park, a talented Chicago-based illustrator who Flickrs her Moleskines, Comics and Doodles. The group also boasts longtime zine superstar Al Burian (warning- extremely barebones personal website), Lilli Carre, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Anya Davidson (frontswoman of Chicago band Coughs), Lucy Knisley, Rachel Niffennegger, Burnie McGovern, Onsmith, Aaron Renier, Grant Reynolds, Becca Taylor, Jeremy Tinder and Marco Torres.
A minicomic of their work is now available at Quimbys.

posted by 235w103 (7 comments total)

You mean Metafilter's own Laura Park.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:01 AM on November 14, 2008

Wow - from what I've seen, I'd say they're all shades of disturbingly hilarious surrealism. Thanks for this!
posted by filthy light thief at 11:07 AM on November 14, 2008

...oh my goodness! I guess I should probably preemptively apologize for this sort of slap-dash post- I wasn't able to find links for everyone involved, and Al Burian really deserves an FPP of his own, except his zines really have to be physically read. In any case, there's so much talent here it makes me gaze at my own claw-like hands and WEEP.
posted by 235w103 at 11:08 AM on November 14, 2008

Don't miss the custom MetaFilter work.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:11 AM on November 14, 2008

Those are just fantatic. I've seen a few come up on in Laura's flickr feed, but didn't know they had consolidated them in one place. This kind of stuff really inspires me to try to step up my doodling into something more finished.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 11:45 AM on November 14, 2008

holy shit, i love all these people!

see also, a previous effort by many of these fine folks, The Hairy Nipples Comics Collective
posted by elr at 1:39 AM on November 15, 2008

Now this is what I'm talking about. Me Like!
posted by doctorschlock at 9:29 AM on November 15, 2008