Dave Schaafsma's Reviews > PeePee PooPoo #1

Congrats for Eisner 2024 Best Limited Series: PeePee PooPoo, by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)! Whoo hoo!

This PeePee PooPoo #1 (August 2024) is the fourth short collection of Cash's fun alt comix, PeePee PooPoo, numbered #1 just because (others were numbered #69, #420) sort of diary/memoir/slice of life/gag comix. The first three were based in Chicago, but now she has moved to Philly (boo, though she was here in The Chi this last weekend [August 2024]for CAKE [Chicago Alternative Komix Exposition], a featured and hot emerging artist.

Cash still writes about youthful lostness with snarky humor but also tells a story of being lost, stoned, wallet gone, phone dead, in a new city. Why five stars? And who doesn't like the "First Date" story?! (Sometimes reminds me of Jeff Brown and Noah VanSciver). I can see how someone might rate this three stars, as it seems like the events recounted are unremarkable, but look close and you see an emerging great artist who is really funny and approachable and silly and knows what she is doing with the form.

Cash says her early influences have been Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) (obviously), but also Adventure Comics and Yugioh (so you get the simple manga vibe). I'm in to collect her stuff as she collects every One Piece volume ever.