Viewotron Comics and Stories No.2, 2022
by Sam Sharpe and Peach S. Goodrich
Published by Radiator Comics

Viewotron: Comics and Stories No. 2 collects three new thoughtful, charming, and funny short stories by Sam Sharpe and Peach S. Goodrich. All three comics deal with perception, hope, doom, and the future.

• Satellite and Telescope (Part 1 of 2)
  by Peach S Goodrich tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a 10-year old girl named Neha, and an orbital satellite who is handy with an SLR.

• What Will Be Left?
  by Sam Sharpe is an abecedarius about how our present culture may appear to archeologists from the distant future.

• The Spooky Child (Part 1 of 2)
  by Sam Sharpe follows the mysterious adventures of two art teachers, as one of their students’ drawings foretell terrible calamities!

Peach and Sam’s gorgeous black and white cartooning captures tons of emotion, humanity, and humor in every panel. With both great detail, and economy of line, these comics will draw you into a world of cursed drawings, curious satellites, and our last gasps.

Viewotron Comics and Stories No.1, 2018
by Sam Sharpe and Peach S. Goodrich
Published by AdHouse Books

When it comes to reading Viewotron No. 1, the inaugural volume of Sam Sharpe’s ‘one-or-more-person comics anthology’ co-created with Peach S Goodrich, it’s all a matter of perspective. In the volume’s second comic, ‘The Secret Origins of Viewotron’, the eponymous thingamabob is revealed to have been a literal ‘deus ex machina’ created by Sharpe and Goodrich back in 2005 as a prop for an impromptu sci-fi film the two had been working on at the time. “It’s a machine whose purpose is unclear,” Sam confidently states, whose only explicit function being to reveal something “different” to whomever looks into it. When asked what exactly the Viewotron shows to the person peering through it, Sam simply replies, “Whatever your character needs to see.” This concept, of a tool facilitated to reveal the unseen and essential truth of one’s lived experiences through the animating spark of their subjectivity, is carried through to the color scheme of Viewotron itself: an mock-analyphic red and cyan composition evoking comparisons to the earliest forms of commercial 3D imagery. What at first is mundane can turn out to be revelatory, if viewed with the proper mindset. It’s an appropriate context for a disarmingly pleasant collection of stories that tackle everything from the anxiety of subjective experience, misplaced expectations, mortality, loneliness, and the aimless struggle to find one’s sense of place and meaning in the world.

-Toussaint Egan, The Comics Journal

Viewotron is a two-person comics anthology, featuring 10 short stories by Sam Sharpe and Peach S Goodrich! Sam and Peach’s stories are inventive, humorous, and heartfelt. Sam’s tend to be more cerebral, revolving around an interesting premise: what if your friends invent a religion that catches on, or what if you were so lonely, your body shrank or expanded dependent on how a friend perceived you? Peach’s comics work more on a emotional level, one story focusing on the love and support of family and friends, and another about a misunderstood monster.

Sam and Peach have known each other since college (a portion of their college days are captured in one of their collaborative comics in the issue), and their comics style grew up together, influencing each other. Their stories compliment each other well, and their stylized cartooning is a lot of fun to read. Get ready to be delighted, and for a guffaw or two!

-Radiator Comics