Michael Sweater

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Michael Sweater has 3,140 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #50 on Substack's Comics Bestsellers board. 39 publications recommend them, and they recommend 9.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 6 days ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 3,140; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 2.8K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 39; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 9
Bestsellers rank: #50; Comics

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Michael Sweater on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	3,140		2.8K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Comics Bestsellers	#50	#50	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Comics Bestsellers	50	50	50	50	0

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

39 publications recommend Michael Sweater. Michael Sweater recommends 9, and 6 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2022-08	1
2022-09	1
2022-11	1
2022-12	1
2023-03	1
2023-06	1
2024-02	2
2024-03	1
2024-05	2
2024-06	2
2024-07	1
2024-09	2
2024-11	2
2024-12	1
2025-01	2
2025-02	3
2025-03	3
2025-04	1
2025-05	1
2025-06	1
2025-11	2
2025-12	3
2026-05	1
2026-06	2
2026-08	1

Recommended by

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All 39

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Recommends

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Rosie Recommendsstarted May 2024 · mutual

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Comics writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (69 writers in that group), but not Michael Sweater.

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recommends 7 of them
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recommends 5 of them
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recommends 5 of them
Steve Sack@stevesack
recommends 4 of them
Nathan Lueth@nathanlueth
recommends 4 of them

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