Snip

Snip is a compact but memorable creation from the early 1990s underground-adjacent scene, debuting in Cereal Killings #4 in 1993 — a Fantagraphics series that already signals you're in adventurous, off-the-beaten-path comics territory. Brought to life by James Sturm, a cartoonist with genuine indie credibility, Snip shares those quirky pages with an eclectic cast including Scarecrow, Carbunkle, and Doug, which gives you a sense of the wonderfully offbeat world Cereal Killings inhabits. With only five catalog appearances across a short 1993–1995 run, Snip is precisely the kind of obscure gem that makes digging through Fantagraphics back-issue bins so rewarding — a small character from a small series that captures exactly what made alternative comics of that era so distinctive and worth seeking out.