SMITH has a jones for comics with intensely personal storylines. So no shock that we love Bee and her “bubblegum noir adventures,” the creation of Jason Little and his Beekeeper Cartoon Amusements. In Shutterbug Follies, Bee works at a one-hour photo lab in lower Manhattan, where she duplicates the weirdest photos she comes across for her personal collection. Little’s latest is Motel Art Improvement Service (here’s a panel below), a sequel to Shutterbug that follows Bee’s dark-ass and funny adventures on a cross-country bike trip. It’s been out for a while now, but I just found it via ACT-I-VATE, the storied webcomic collective that houses many legends (including Shooting War’s own Dan Goldman) and now has now welcomed Little into its ranks.

Big ups to Dan and Anthony for the hot write-up Shooting War received in the October issue of Wired. Dan’s got it here. And if you haven’t gone down this road yet, check out Dan’s sublime “Craigslist roommate caper” Kelly.