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The Waiting Place
Slave Labor · 1999–2002 · 12 issues
About the series
From 1999 to 2002, Sean McKeever’s The Waiting Place ran for twelve issues from Slave Labor Graphics, chronicling the lives of small-town teenagers with a raw, empathetic eye. McKeever’s scripts, illustrated by a rotating team including Mike Norton, David Yurkovich, and Jason Alexander, captured the quiet anxieties and fleeting connections of youth without superheroes or melodrama. A touchstone for early-2000s slice-of-life indie comics, it remains a quietly influential portrait of adolescence as a state of suspended anticipation.