[Rahul reads] The Death Issue by The Nib (Volume 1)

At some point during the COVID-19 pandemic, I think I came across Matt Bors' work, specifically The Nib. I've wanted to get The Nib issues for many years now but it was always wayyyyyy too costly because I live on the other side of the planet from where they are published and usually sold. Recently, a couple of family members were traveling from the US and were kind enough to say yes to bringing them over with them. And The Nib shutdown so they also sold the few physical copies that they had at a huge discount. So here I am, the proud owner of 8 issues that The Nib published, the first being The Death Issue.

I absolutely loved reading the Issue and I can't wait to write about the next issue tomorrow but as I try to write this post, I'm slowly getting mad at The Nib team or disappointed at the state of the publishing industry. Not all of comics ever published by the The Nib are accessible from their website. But the pages that are meant to catalog together the available comics under the Issue e.g. The Death Issue are dead. For example, https://thenib.com/series/from_the_death_issue/ is dead. It was last alive in 2024 according to the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20240306204128/https://thenib.com/series/from_the_death_issue/. And if I look through that page, I will end up at all of the relevant comics. For the sake of discoverability, I'll list all of the comics and their links on The Nib directly here, instead of having to access them indirectly via the Wayback Machine.

• Death by the numbers
• The Nib Interview: Barbara Ehrenreich on Death and Wellness 
• Everything dies
• How do you NOT want to die? 
• Four Cartoonists On What They Want to Happen to Their Bodies
• Everything dies (another)
• Stayin' alive : A Heroin story
• She talks to dead pets
• It's our funeral
• Cultural Conquistadors 

Two of the Feature stories from this issue were amazing - and i'm still having trouble dealing with one of them. It's basically my only nightmare at the moment so i think I will just lock it away and forget about it. I'd still recommend people to buy the e-book if they're interested.

P.S. I doubt anyone at The Nib or Matt Bors will come across this page but please restore the issue pages on your wordpress site. Every 404 is a papercut and the internet is dealing with death by a thousand (millions) of papercuts like this. Atleast handle the 404s meaningfully. Please.