Milkyboots

📖 The Scoop

"Often considered a pioneer of the Louisianan-Portlandic school of web-diary comics, Virginia Paine is the preeminent force that is Milkyboots. Her slices-of-life style, coupled with evocative and sparse illustrations, has been lauded by the post-ironic generation." - a review from the back front cover. Issue 10 of Virginia Paine's diary comics zine Milkyboots chronicles the three months between December 2009 and March 2010. The zine opens in December with Paine catching a flight from Portland, Oregon to Wisconsin. Two weeks later, Paine is lamenting the lack of good coffee, good bookstores, and good architecture. She concedes that "Portland has spoiled [her]." In February, she flies to London as her brother is moving there for graduate school. She regrets agreeing to go as she would miss three class sessions and she did not want to leave her girlfriend, Olivia. Paine concludes the zine with a list of media recommendations including the television show Lost and the Eragon series.

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