Andrew White

When I started Yearly in 2018 I wrote a few paragraphs about the project and its goals. Those goals have not changed but they’ve shifted and developed slightly. That seems worth capturing in writing. It’s been on my mind. So: Yearly is a “one-person anthology” that I publish every year and that I plan to […]

Just a quick note to say that a number of recent comics are newly available as digital editions. You can see them here. People are also still occasionally finding my digital comics on Gumroad so I figured I’d update that as well. What else am I working on? I ask myself this most days, trying […]

I have two long, newish pieces of work online for you to read. I just finished Under False Pretenses, a project that adapts twelve books or stories by Italian novelist Italo Calvino into something that perhaps resembles a biography. Around the same time last year, I finished Ghosts, a piece of fiction about family and […]

I was traveling for a week and then had covid for a week, so it was a struggle to squeeze out the last two pages that I had decided (before that interruption) were necessary to make this draft complete. One of them is pictured above, without text. I’d lost my excitement and confidence in this […]

An obvious but essential element of concentrated work on a single project is how your subconscious mind begins to suggest ideas. It’s rare but really nice when it does happen. Just a page, a scene, a phrase here and there. A true reward for staying focused. I’m reaching about two months of work on this […]

I’m getting there. I have a draft done, approx 130 colored and lettered pages, and I’m trying to settle my mind as I write this. A quiet mind, as I said before. I don’t need to maintain this state for long, as little as 30 minutes or certainly an hour can be enough to get […]

Writing in depth on a website somehow feels very intimate. I spent the last month churning out pages for the comic I’m working on. I have a draft completed. Parts of it are good, parts of it need significant work, parts of it stand somewhere between those two extremes in a vast middle ground where […]

Introduction In the course of working my Calvino comic, Under False Pretenses, I was happy to reread Six Memos for the Next Millennium. This slim volume collects a series of lectures that Calvino planned to deliver in 1985, though he died before doing so or indeed before finishing the work – he only completed five […]

The simple question, the meta-question, the obvious question is how do you organize your life and your schedule and your thinking and your process such that you not only continue making comics but improve the quality of those comics.  I’ve detected a small shift in my thinking around these issues, which I’ve struggled to articulate […]

Yearly 2023 is available for preorder. I need to finish it! I’m close, just need to add a final few touches. Maybe your orders will help motivate me to do so. This issue is in the same format as last year, 5.25 x 8 and full color and filled with a few different stories. I […]