40 pages/ first printing
5.5"x8.5" black and white

The Cartoon Picayune is a new handmade magazine anthology of journalism in the form of comics. Already into its fourth issue, this new publication aspires to serve as the home for truthful reporting in the comics medium.

Issue #4 is the first truly themed issue. Five stories stories on a theme of “DISTRESS.” New Yorker cartoonist Matt Diffee brings us a story about rattlesnakes that is the first really
funny comic we’ve ever had. Colin Tedford’s story is about men who dance with bells on their legs. Still, each comic is about adversity and what triumphing over that actually looks like in the real world. Josh Kramer discovers how some in D.C.’s suburbs deal with the aftermath of June’s destructive Derecho storm. Darryl Holliday and E. N. Rodriguez are back to tell us about those being deported from the U.S., and Jess Ruliffson’s featured story introduces us to one of one
of our country’s wounded warriors.

Experience what The Big Planet Comics Podcast calls "The This American Life of comics."

Editor Josh Kramer graduated in 2011 from The Center for Cartoon Studies, a two-year M. F. A. program in White River Junction, Vermont. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from American University in 2009. He lives in Washington, D.C.