Blue Monday: Absolute Beginners
Oni Press · 2001 · 4 issues
About the series
In 2001, Oni Press launched Blue Monday: Absolute Beginners, the first story arc of Chynna Clugston Flores’s beloved slice-of-life series. Set in the mid-1990s, this four-issue miniseries follows a group of California teenagers navigating friendship, crushes, and the chaos of high school, all filtered through a punk-rock and pop-culture lens. Clugston Flores’s expressive, manga-influenced art and sharp, witty dialogue immediately distinguished the book, establishing Blue Monday as a defining voice in early-2000s indie comics for its warm, authentic take on adolescent awkwardness.