Tykes

Steven K. Weissman’s Tykes, launched in 1997 from Alternative Press, is a one-shot comic that distills childhood’s raw, unvarnished reality into a single, potent issue. Weissman, writing and drawing the entire story, focuses on the small cruelties and strange alliances of a group of kids, creating a quietly unsettling world that feels both familiar and alien. Its importance lies in its stark, unromanticized take on youth, a hallmark of the alternative comics scene of the era.