The Lonesome Era

Jon Allen writes and draws this single-issue graphic novel from Iron Circus Comics, a self-contained story that captures a specific moment of adolescent transition. Set in the late 1990s, The Lonesome Era follows a group of teenage friends in a small town as they navigate the bittersweet end of summer and the looming uncertainties of high school. Allen’s warm, slightly melancholy art style grounds the tale in a palpable sense of place and time, making it a resonant, slice-of-life meditation on growing up.