This article is part of our lead-up to Kill Screen Festival where Katie Skelly will be speaking. /// “I want to work harder and grosser and draw uglier,” cartoonist Katie Skelly told the Comics Journal in 2014. Skelly has become a one-woman force in the comics scene, both as a critic and an artist since self-publishing her first comic, Nurse Nurse, in the late 00s. She grinds hard, no doubt about it, but it’d be a stretch to call her art ugly; rather— she deals with ugliness within her characters, the places where social niceties collapse, where blunt, hurtful words carry…