Octopus Pie, by Meredith Gran (www.octopuspie.com)

Those who are big-time fans of the New York middle-class urban lifestyle—a world of organic living shops, postmodern thinking, and a backwards-hyperactive appreciation of aviator sunglasses and shutter shades—will probably find something to like in Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie. It’s more than just today’s “indie” material though; despite the use of hipsters, stoners, and loners as the cast, there are very few flat characters.

This is fortunate for fans like me. The hipster scene kinda scares me.

Eve stands as a great protagonist: flawed, cynical, detached and scared out of her wits. After starting in 2007, Octopus Pie is 20 chapters strong. Currently it’s updating chapter-by-chapter instead of page-by-page, so those who haven’t been reading this comic should have some time to catch up. Her comic can be found at www.octopuspie.com.