If you enjoyed reading my comics online,

please consider purchasing a dead tree edition.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

Looking up- $20(usd), 96 pages with three 8-page inward facing gatefolds. First printed Fall 2008. Read this online!

 

Reviews for Looking Up:

"It's a gem- a sweet story of a young couple facing tough times in their life in rural West Virginia, and everything seems to come to a head because of one very large hole in the ground. I highly recommend it."-Tim Broderick

"Let me tell you about Ursula's graphic novel. The cover is stained, the pages are a bit raggy, the binding is starting to weaken in spots- oh, sorry. That's just my copy. I've read it so many times it's starting to take on the worn look of a book that's also an old friend.
This is a wonderful book. It quietly lets us into the lives and possibilities of people seeming to live without possibility. The depth of the characterization is echoed by the flow of the art and the subtlety of the design. This is seamless storytelling."- Diana Green

 

 

Making Rain -$10(usd) 56 2 color pages, perfect bound. First printed Spring 2004. Read this online!

 

Reviews for Making Rain:

"Making Rain uses a two-color printing process (blue and brown) and it’s beautiful. Husted seems to draw her characters almost as outlines, using just dashes and strokes of brown to carve them into being."- Greg McElhatton

"Emotion, real emotion, comes forth from the pages, and it's very easy to be swept up into one's own memories of similar experiences. Death--real, human death--is a topic that is seldom dealt with in comics. Oh sure, we're constantly bombarded with the "In This Issue: A Character Dies!" type of death, but that's exploitive and sensational, and completely divorced from the real experience. Husted is to be commended for presenting a story with genuine humanity." - Dave Carter

“A wonderful meditation on loss as a young girl copes with her grandmother’s passing. She attends the funeral, family members visit, and then she has to return to school.

The thick brush-looking linework makes the figures rough-edged, as though their raw emotions are visible. The blue tones and brown ink on cream paper are an unusual but very effective choice.

Husted does a beautiful job of capturing how a child sees the world. The adult reader will recognize the impact of what young Rosie hears while Rosie herself doesn’t. Husted trusts the reader to fill in necessary gaps, as when the teacher reads the note from her mother; we don’t see it, but we know exactly what it says.” -Joanna Draper Carlson