A tiny chunk of artistic process, with monsters. Sketches of leftover owls and such that led up to Huizenga’s fairy-tale “28th St.” in Curses.

Huizenga’s new minicomic series is good news for anyone who wondered if having a couple of big glossy books published would mess with his simplicity and experimental spirit. In the first issue: comics about Glenn and Wendy; visual essays and thought fragment diagrams; haunting little streams of writing running through it all.

Issue 2 is an ashcan of thumbnail sketches, reproducing the rough drafts of pages and covers by Kevin, and his fellow USS Catastrophe artists Dan Zettwoch and Ted May, to reassure curious people that these things don’t just appear full-formed.

Continuing the story begun in Or Else #5, loosely adapted from Giorgio Manganelli’s Centuria. Glenn Ganges prefers to avoid conflict, so he left his “scientifically rigorous” country when politics got too hot; unfortunately, where he’s living now, there’s a religious war. The churning of society happens at a distance as Glenn tries to focus on simple things. A beautiful, powerful brew of classic cartooning, visual poetry and philosophy.

Drawings and notes made while sitting in church. Some are about the sermon; some might be a sermon, in some tipsy nonlinear way. Some are just silly. You never know when art is sneaking into the next pew.

This playful little sketch diary doubles as a narrative of sorts, recording the author’s attempts to find some kind of name for his next series and tossing off a few hundred interesting notions in the process.