The drawing desk

Comics

Short graphic stories — six to fifteen panels, read in one sitting. Drawn for the magazine, and laid out to be read in the dark.

12 strips122 panels3 artists

No. 12

Philosophy · 7 panels

Proof

A mathematician tries to explain certainty to her daughter. Neither of them wins.

Ren Adeyemi30 Aug 2026

No. 11

Society · 10 panels

The night shift

Nairobi at three in the morning, drawn by someone who has never slept through it.

Marco Vidal19 Jul 2026

No. 10

Science · 6 panels

Tide table

Two weeks on the coast, measured in centimetres and recorded in pencil.

Ren Adeyemi21 Jun 2026

No. 09

History · 11 panels

Inheritance

Teo Mensah24 May 2026

No. 08

Culture · 9 panels

The last analogue photograph

Teo Mensah26 Apr 2026

No. 07

Science · 8 panels

Salt

Ren Adeyemi22 Mar 2026

No. 06

History · 12 panels

What the archive kept

Six boxes, one file that is not there, and a clerk who remembers exactly why.

Teo Mensah15 Feb 2026

No. 05

Mind · 9 panels

Static

Silent panels on the noise between a thought and the words that were meant to carry it.

Ren Adeyemi18 Jan 2026

No. 04

Culture · 13 panels

Matatu

Marco Vidal14 Dec 2025

No. 03

Society · 12 panels

Where the map ends

Teo Mensah9 Nov 2025

No. 02

Mind · 10 panels

Signal

Marco Vidal12 Oct 2025

No. 01

Society · 15 panels

The long commute

A city wakes, seen from the same train window at the same minute for a year.

Marco Vidal7 Sept 2025

The drawing desk

Marco Vidal
4 strips
Ren Adeyemi
4 strips
Teo Mensah
4 strips