The Gutter

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The Gutter has 1,779 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #69 on Substack's Comics Bestsellers board. 44 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: 1,779; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 1.3K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 44; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 9
Bestsellers rank: #69; 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 The Gutter on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	1,779		1.3K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Comics Bestsellers	#69	#69	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	69	69	69	69	0

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

44 publications recommend The Gutter. The Gutter recommends 9, and 4 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
2022-07	2
2022-09	1
2022-10	1
2022-11	1
2022-12	2
2023-01	3
2023-02	1
2023-03	1
2023-04	2
2023-06	2
2023-07	2
2023-08	2
2023-09	2
2023-11	1
2023-12	2
2024-01	1
2024-02	2
2024-06	2
2024-08	3
2024-09	2
2024-10	1
2024-11	1
2025-01	1
2025-02	1
2025-05	1
2025-10	1
2026-02	1
2026-06	1
2026-08	1

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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.

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