Name: Did You Hear About Mimi Green? #1 Review
Item: Did You Hear About Mimi Green? #1
Author: Dan McMahon

Dan McMahonMay 13, 2026

There aren’t many comics that light a fire in my brain, making me read the first issue over and over. The last time that it happened was The Plot, my favorite comic. But I have read the first issue of Did You Hear About Mimi Green? about 20 times since my first read. Connor Goldsmith, Josh Cornillon, and Ariana Maher have crafted a perfect issue. There is something viscerally enchanting about Josh’s art for the book and the story it’s telling. Delving into a community’s self-mutation, fatphobia, and self-hatred in a single issue with poise is no easy feat to accomplish, but Mimi sticks the landing with straight 10s across the board.

In Did You Hear About Mimi Green?, Tastemaker Mimi Green is a popular essayist with a perfectly curated social media presence—until a blog post she wrote a decade ago, cruelly mocking fat people, resurfaces and sparks a viral furor. Mimi checks into an isolated mental health facility in Topanga to ride out the scandal, but as sound baths and crystal healings by day give way to restless nights, she’s pulled into another version of the building. There, the halls are old and gluttonous and gilded, and the vainglorious like Mimi and her fellow patients are punished again and again. Only local bartender Natalie, the lesbian lover Mimi hid from the public, stands a chance of tracking her down before it’s too late.

Walking the line of no spoilers for this one is hard because there is so much to dig into. We get scenes of the reaction to a blog Mimi wrote years ago, reflecting the world we live in. Once an ounce of blood hits the water of any group of people, it’s like the sharks haven’t eaten in years. They carefully comb through everything a person has done to destroy them and match it to any narrative being pushed. It’s a fascinating clash between accountability and public execution in some cases where growth was never an option. Mimi, herself, is caught in the middle of those waters for making nasty comments about fat people in one of her old blogs.

I am a fat person. I understand what it is like to live in a fat body and the shame that comes with it. I don’t feel good about the space I take up and the comments that come with it, good and bad. But I also understand that things and people change. It’s one of the reasons I was drawn into this book so much. It is looking at fatphobia through the lens of body horror in a way I haven’t seen before. Watching someone reel from the backlash to comments they made years ago while dealing with their own identity makes this book one of the strongest first showings for a writer in recent memory, with the book’s scribe, Connor Goldsmith. They write about these communities and controversies with nuance and understanding. Ariana Maher’s lettering drives the story forward without a single hiccup in her divine lettering. It is matched by Josh Cornillon’s art.

There is a page of different “… is a cure” new age therapies illustrated by Josh Cornillon that has stuck with me. It felt like watching someone hit their head against the mundane, things that aren’t actually the cure for what they’re dealing with. It was a beautiful cycle that was picked up through the books. Cornillon’s art is vibrant in so many ways. The characters are expressive, the outfits are perfect, and then comes the horror of it all. There is a monster roaming this world, and Josh Cornillon brought it to life with such beauty in the grotesque. Holding back a full spoiler-filled rant about how Cornillion is a horror master is something I must do. I need you to see this book with fresh eyes because it is special.

Did You Hear About Mimi Green? is already the book of the year, and it hasn’t hit shelves. It’s a powerhouse debut for Connor Goldsmith as a writer. It’s also a showcase of how brilliant an artist Josh Cornillon is and the bright future they have in the macabre and in beauty. I could not recommend this book enough if I tried. It is a 10/10.