Cartoonist Andrew Fulton. Credit:Ken Irwin The print run was capped at 50, which meant only 38 outside subscriptions so each artist could receive a comic each month. The club was fully subscribed in less than 12 hours, with a handful of overseas members. For a time the club went into hiatus, but last year one of Grant's mates, Andrew Fulton, decided to resurrect it. The mini comic Fulton produced for 2009's club was the first time he had printed and stapled and folded his work, rather than putting it online. ''I don't know why I hadn't done it before, because it's super fun,'' he says. The arty bit wasn't the hard part. ''Once I got over thinking 'Oh god, I have to make this perfect,' it was pretty quick to draw up.'' The printing logistics were the challenge. ''How do I put these together so they're in the right order? How do I know where to cut? Do I fold, then staple? Staple, then fold? Oh man, this one is upside down. Start again.''

Fulton revived the club for two reasons. ''I really like getting comics in the mail, and as an artist I like knowing there is a captive audience for something I make - that I'm not just drawing into the void.'' A hundred people subscribed last year. ''People have been tweeting and instagramming each comic as it arrives,'' Fulton says. ''It's awesome to see people getting excited about an artist they otherwise might not have come across.'' The club's artists last year included Grant, Fulton, Rebecca Hayes, Mandy Ord and Sarah Howell. The final comic of that round, by illustrator Sacha Bryning, goes out this month, and subscriptions for the next round close at the end of the month, with the first comic posted in August. ''I've tried to mix it up for this season and reach beyond people I know personally,'' Fulton says. ''I try to get a good spread of styles and voices.'' As an artist, I like knowing I'm not just drawing into the void.

Mel Stringer makes her Minicomic Club debut in September. She moved from Darwin to Brisbane in 2006 to study visual arts and stayed there as a freelance illustrator, drawing and doing typesetting and graphic design on the side. Her work, which she describes as ''honest, bold, cute, sassy and sour'', is inspired by kawaii, the Japanese ''cute'' movement embodied by Hello Kitty and the hyper Alice in Wonderland-style fashions worn by teenage girls in Japan. She says her minicomic will be ''less narrative, more fluid and semi-linear'', and more of a diary inspired by ''a journey I will be going on very soon''. Has anyone ever failed to deliver? Yes. In July last year, Grant had to post out an apology comic for not finishing his. There was a good reason. He started in plenty of time, ''a throwaway story about something my dad did when I was a little kid''. He got the first six pages done on a Sunday, then on Wednesday his father died suddenly. ''I was, and still am, working through grief and confusion after losing the old bloke,'' he says. Loading Meeting the deadline was impossible, and he has struggled to complete the comic, but is almost there. ''It's a year late but I'm not too worried,'' he says. ''It's become one of the most important projects I've ever worked on, and I'll be proud to send it out.''