All About Grumbles
This is the online home of Grumbles, a comic strip that ran weekly in Atlanta’s late, lamented alternative newsweekly the Sunday Paper for six and a half years.
Later it was resurrected and then ran on a weekly basis on a Tumblr page, running for a total of 12 years. The older weekly strips are archived here.
These annual volumes had various names, and were a compilation of a years worth of strips, with some additional bonus material.
Here’s an index of all 12 issues
A Year of Grumbles
was the first yearly collection of the Grumbles comic strip, as published in Atlanta’s Sunday Paper, and was only printed as a trade paperback at Lulu.
Let's call this a collector's issue, as there aren't too many copies out there...
Grumbles Like This You Don't Know From...
was the second collection of the resurrected Grumbles comic strip, also printed as a trade paperback, but at IndyPlanet, albeit in an oddlt-sized format.
Grumbles, Year 3
was the third yearly collection of the Grumbles comic strip, as published in Atlanta’s Sunday Paper.
28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with extra bonus material.
Copies are available at Indyplanet.
Grumbles, Year 4
was the fourth yearly collection of the Grumbles comic strip, as published in Atlanta’s Sunday Paper.
28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with extra bonus material.
Copies are available at Indyplanet.
Grumbles, Year 5
was the fifth yearly collection of the Grumbles comic strip, as published in Atlanta’s Sunday Paper.
28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with extra bonus material.
Copies are available at Indyplanet.
Grumbles, Year 6
was the sixth yearly collection of the Grumbles comic strip, as published in Atlanta’s Sunday Paper.
28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with extra bonus material.
Copies are available at Indyplanet.
The Death of Grumbles
was what I believed to be the final yearly collection of the Grumbles comic strip. The Sunday Paper went out of business after 6 1/2 years, and I thought that was the end of it.
This special issue includes other material, like the story of my trip to Italy to attend the International Journalism Festival, as well as other autobiographical stories.
Copies are available at Indyplanet.
Cabbagetown Chronicles, Volume 1
was a yearly collection of the resurrected Grumbles comic strip, brought back after a short hiatus to continue the strip after its six-and-a-half years of publication in Atlanta’s Sunday Paper. 28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with extra bonus material.
Copies are available at Indyplanet.
Cabbagetown Chronicles, Volume 2
is a collection of the ninth year of Grumbles comic strips, as seen on Tumblr. It’s an autobiographical slice of my life, where I express what it’s like to live here in this lovely slice on intown Atlanta.
28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with extra bonus material. You can pick up your copy at Indyplanet, or at one of the many comic book shows I’ll be attending around town.
Grumbles X
is a collection of the tenth year of Grumbles comic strips, as seen on Tumblr. That year I moved from Atlanta to Athens, Georgia, and tried to cope with the 2016 presidential campaign.
It’s 28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with bonus material. You can pick up your copy at Indyplanet, or at one of the many comic book shows I’ll be attending around town.
Tales of the Classic City, Volume 1
was a collection of the 11th year of Grumbles comic strips, from Athens Georgia
It’s 28 full-color pages, 52 strips, with bonus material. You can pick up your copy at Indyplanet, or at one of the many comic book shows I’ll be attending around town.
Tales of the Classic City, Volume 2
was a collection of Grumbles comic strips from 2016. This year contains the last published 52 Grumbles strips.
You can pick up your copy at Indyplanet, or at one of my comic show appearances.