First and Last: Anders Loves Maria

We used to do an irregularly recurring bit here at ComixTALK called "First and Last" which seemed like a good idea to revive.  Particularly with a comic like Anders Loves Maria where creator Rene Engström has not only constantly improved but also taken several stylistic leaps during the comic.

Here's a snippet from the first comic was posted in 2006:


I'm not going to post the very last comic (trying not to create a spoiler here) but this is close enough:

There were many times Engström mixed up her approach — I thought the series with washed colors was very good:

Xaviar Xerexes

Wandering webcomic ronin. Created Comixpedia (2002-2005) and ComixTalk (2006-2012; 2016-?). Made a lot of unfinished comics and novels.