LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! At seven pages, Tenli Yavneh’s So That’s That Story is not the shortest publication ever reviewed on Broken Frontier (The Colossive Cartographies probably hold that record), but may be in the running for one of the funniest comics in the LDComics Fair.
Tenli Yavneh is another creator with an unusual path to the LDComics Fair. A retired clinical psychologist, over on Instagram she has been filling sketchbooks every day since 2014 with comics about her family (and especially her mother, who battled Parkinson’s and Lewy Body Dementia later in life).
Yavneh’s artwork, in So That’s That Story, is reminiscent of the explosion of women cartoonists in the alternative comics anthologies of the 80s or 90s where the art was very personal and utilized to tell their stories in the least amount of space with the greatest impact possible. A favourite panel shows the progression of time shown through the different phones used by Yavneh to call her mother through the decades. An earlier panel reveals her mother’s favourite saying, “For now”, in a crystal ball labelled the crystal of doom, with humour emphasized by the caption: “The standard reaction to any expression of optimism) “.
Tenli Yavneh’s So That’s That Story, is seven pages of conversations between her and her mother which allow us to experience the bright light that was her mother’s presence in Yavneh’s life (and the lives of everyone around her, as well). This excerpt is only available through the LDComics Online Comics Fair during the month of July, so check this out soon as you won’t want to miss this one!
Tenli Yavneh (W/A) • LDComics Online Comics Fair, £6.00
Review by Gary Usher
The LDComics Online Comics Fair runs across the month of July. Read all our coverage of the comics on offer here at BF.
