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Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
San Diego Diary	Gabrielle Bell	Uncivilized Books	Diary	$4.00 ($4.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This trio of diary comics continues in the vein of Bell's Drawn and Quarterly collections, and present a series of great slice-of-life comics that are sure to appeal to all of her fans and are well worth checking out by anyone interested in diary comics. Each of these roughly digest size publications features a cardstock cover and is jam packed with 20-26 pages of comics. Behind the scenes at San Diego Con!
L.A. Diary	Gabrielle Bell	Uncivilized Books	Diary	$4.00 ($4.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This trio of diary comics continues in the vein of Bell's Drawn and Quarterly collections, and present a series of great slice-of-life comics that are sure to appeal to all of her fans and are well worth checking out by anyone interested in diary comics. Each of these roughly digest size publications features a cardstock cover and is jam packed with 20-26 pages of comics. Experience L.A. through the pen of Ms. Bell.
Diary	Gabrielle Bell	Uncivilized Books	Diary	$4.00 ($4.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This trio of diary comics continues in the vein of Bell's Drawn and Quarterly collections, and present a series of great slice-of-life comics that are sure to appeal to all of her fans and are well worth checking out by anyone interested in diary comics. Each of these roughly digest size publications features a cardstock cover and is jam packed with 20-26 pages of comics. This time around, destination: Minneapolis.
Cartoon Picayune #2	Josh Kramer, Bill Volk, James Sturm, Katherine Roy and more ...	Self-published	Cartoon Picayune	$3.00 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Josh Kramer 36 pages of feature news stories in comics form. This time around we have the second half of editor Kramer's story of high school ski jumpers, "Fly By Night"; Pittsburgher Bill Volk provides a tale of Pittsburgh (and post-Pittsburgh) brewing in "'Arn: A Brief History of Iron City Beer"; Josh Kramer is back again with "School's In for the Summer," a tale of – if you can believe it – a day camp school-of-rock; and then the issue closes out with a piece by Center for Cartoon Studies founder and director, James Sturm and Katherine Roy, "Honk and Wave," that follows Vermont gubernatorial candidate, Matt Dunne around for a day of his election campaign. A small press comics innovation!
Sundays #4	Lydia Conklin, Damien Jay, Max de Radigués, Mari Ahokoivu and more ...	Self-published	Sundays	$12.75 ($15.00 list)
Read more and comment...	It looked for awhile that we weren't going to be able to lay our hands on any of these, but thanks to trusty Tony Shenton, we snagged a handful before they went the way of the Dodo. Limited to 300 copies, this horizontally formatted anthology of super indy comics was printed and bound at The Center for Cartoon Studies and sports a hand pulled silk screen cover drawn by Damien Jay and pulled by Alex Kim and Joseph Lambert. Here's its contributor list: Mickey Z, Jeff Lok, Ed Piskor, Warren Craghead III, Aaron Cockle, Melissa Mendes, Joseph Lambert, Mark Burrier, Alex Kim, David Libens, Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi, Dane Martin, Julie Delporte, Michael DeForge, Sean Ford, Samuel C. Gaskin, Scott Longo, Jose-Luis Olivares, Mari Ahokoivu, Max de Radigués, Damien Jay, Lydia Conklin. Whew! Grab it before it's gone!
Amazing Facts & Beyond #5	Dan Zettwoch, Kevin Huizenga	Self-published	Amazing Facts & Beyond	$5.00 ($5.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This one is titled Factual Healing and features another (see above) hand-colored cover by Kevin H, collecting 32 punctures of the over inflated super ego of our times. Special bonus feature: one strip is by guest artist Sammy Harkham.
Amazing Facts & Beyond #4	Kevin Huizenga, Dan Zettwoch	Self-published	Amazing Facts & Beyond	$5.00 ($5.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Another big batch from beyond, Leon Beyond, that is (the first of two this month; see below!). This issue is titled Brain Dump and sports a sturdy Dan Z silk screened cover, binding together 33 strips worth of Amazing Facts for posterity. For those of you unfamiliar with Amazing Facts and Beyond, with Leon Beyond, it is, more or less, Ripley's Believe It or Not! for the Onion set, but with an index to boot! Funny, smart, well drawn, and extremely collectible, these collections are here today and gone tomorrow.
The Body of Work	Kevin Huizenga	Self-published		$4.00 ($4.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Fall 2011 is a good time to be a Kevin Huizenga fan. Not only do we have this brand spankin' new 32 page mini comic and two new issues of Amazing Facts and Beyond (co-produced with dazzlin' Dan Zettwoch; see below), but the long awaited fourth issue of Ganges is just over the horizon! There is no other cartoonist of equivalent stature – unless it's his pal, the aforementioned Dan Zettwoch – that we can think of that continues to self-publish their own mini-comics, but Huizenga's been at it so long it's in his blood. Lucky us! The four stories here range from the two, colloquial "Postcard from Fielder" tales, to the logical abstractions of "First Try." All are tied together by the title tale, which ponders the significance of a life spent in art and the meaning of the "Body of Work" that is produced. Added Bonus: each cover is uniquely (if modestly) hand colored!
The Monologuist Paper Blog Update Supplemental Postcard Set Sticker Pack	Anders Nilsen	Self-published		$10.00 OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	And here's a unique little something-or-other from the author of Big Questions. It's fairly limited and we only have a few left.
The Game	Anders Nilsen	Self-published		$8.25 ($9.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Here's a little handmade gift-edition of Mr. Nilsen's contribution to the now out of print Kramers Ergot #7 – plus one additional page available only here. It comes packaged in a 5" x 7", resealable glassine envelope, but once removed folds out to its full (and full color) 14" x 20" glory. Includes bonus trading card!
N.Y.D.I. #1	Jesse Reklaw	Self-published	N.Y.D.I.	$2.00 ($2.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This 16-page mini-comic by small press comics man-of-many-hats – writer, artist, editor, publisher and distributor – is part memoir of Reklaw's own personal experience in D.I.Y comics creating and part instructional guide / pocket-size mentoring program. Anyone involved in, or even interested in, any form of self-publishing – especially comics – should not hesitate to plunk down the two bucks for this pint-sized package of entertainment and edification.
SF	Ryan Cecil Smith	Self-published		$5.50 ($6.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This is the latest and largest self-published work by Closed Caption Comics alumnus, Ryan Cecil Smith. It's an energetically rendered, fun-filled, tongue in cheek science fiction romp that we unreservedly recommend to die-hard comics fans everywhere. Printed in Japan, where Smith is currently residing. The image to the left shows the front and back covers as well the two colors of paper stock in which the cover was printed (although, to be clear, each individual cover – both front and back – is printed on one or the other color).
Andromeda #12	Andy Scott, Nate McDonough	Self-published	Andromeda	$5.00 ($5.00 list)
Read more and comment...	FULL COLOR! Yes, you read that right. 48 pages of cover to cover full color from the Andromeda gang right here in Pittsburgh, PA, brought to you through the editorial acumen of Mr. Andy Scott. Witness the inner turmoil of Pittsburgh youth in revolt, fully nuanced as never before. The centerpiece is editor Scott's own 11-page piece of pantone penwork. It is surrounded by contributions by fellow Andromedites, Nate McDonough, Lizzee Solomon, Dan McCloskey, Artnoose and more!
Two Eyes of the Beautiful #2	Ryan Cecil Smith	Self-published		$5.00 ($5.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Described by its author as "a grotesque horror manga," this is the second installment of the series by Closed Caption Comics contributor, Ryan Cecil Smith. All the gruesome hallmarks of the body horror genre are present, but tempered by Smith's loose, cartoony drawing style. Dynamic page layouts and well-executed half-tones abound in this jam-packed mini-comic, which includes 3 color Goccu screen-printed covers. Edition of 250.
Gort	Chris Cornwell	Self-published		$2.00 ($2.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Format fans will get a kick out of this self-published, limited edition, 12 page, horizontally formatted mini comic that comes complete with its own double-sided, hand-screened, two-color cover and was created and produced right here in Pittsburgh, PA. The horizontal format endows each page with the pace and feel of a three-panel daily comic strip, which in turn gives this book a unique flavor. Read Gort and discover that the wages of self-absorption is... donuts.
Us In a Box	Spovatar W.B. Phlecender, Chester Brwo, Dave Lapp	Self-published		$4.00 ($4.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Believe it or not, this is an all-new mini-comic collaboration between the one-and-only Chester Brown and fellow Canadian, Dave Lapp (whose combined names are anagrammed in the pseudonym). It's only 12 pages + cover, but it's a hand-signed (by Lapp) and numbered (by Brown) edition of 100 copies. Chester and Dave step out for a brief bit of goofy fun that, naturally, veers uncontrollably into the weird.
Not My Small Diary #15	John Porcellino, Dave Kiersh	Self-published	Not My Small DIary	$6.00 ($6.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Not My Small Diary is a unique anthology title that has been running strong since its founding in 1996 by Delaine Derry Green, who continues as its editor and publisher. Each issue is composed of two 64-80 page volumes, and features approximately 50 different cartoonists – making for a lot of comics for your money! Beginning with #11, each issue has been dedicated to a specific theme (listed below). These issues feature a truly great variety of comics work, most of it by creators that will be unfamiliar to most readers, but much of it is nonetheless quite worthy. Each issue also features work by seasoned comics pros such as Dave Kiersh and John Porcellino. #15: Brushes with Celebrity (140 pages)
Not My Small Diary #14	John Porcellino, Julia Wertz, Sarah Oleksyk, Alec Longstreth and more ...	Self-published	Not My Small DIary	$6.00 ($6.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Not My Small Diary is a unique anthology title that has been running strong since its founding in 1996 by Delaine Derry Green, who continues as its editor and publisher. Each issue is composed of two 64-80 page volumes, and features approximately 50 different cartoonists – making for a lot of comics for your money! Beginning with #11, each issue has been dedicated to a specific theme (listed below). These issues feature a truly great variety of comics work, most of it by creators that will be unfamiliar to most readers, but much of it is nonetheless quite worthy. Each issue also features work by seasoned comics pros such as Dave Kiersh, Alec Longstreth, Sarah Oleksyk, Julia Wertz and John Porcellino! #14: The Dating Issue (138 pages)
Not My Small Diary #13	Dave Kiersh, Dan Zettwoch	Self-published	Not My Small DIary	$6.00 ($6.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Not My Small Diary is a unique anthology title that has been running strong since its founding in 1996 by Delaine Derry Green, who continues as its editor and publisher. Each issue is composed of two 64-80 page volumes, and features approximately 50 different cartoonists – making for a lot of comics for your money! Beginning with #11, each issue has been dedicated to a specific theme (listed below). These issues feature a truly great variety of comics work, most of it by creators that will be unfamiliar to most readers, but much of it is nonetheless quite worthy. Each issue also features work by seasoned comics pros such as Dan Zettwoch and Dave Kiersh. #13: The Lucky/Unlucky Issue (158 pages)
King-Cat Comics & Stories #71	John Porcellino	Spit and a Half	King-Cat Comics and Stories	$3.00 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Now's your chance to catch up with Mr. P! While this issue was drawn during his sojurn in the sunshine state – Gainesville, FL, to be exact – the events chronicled primarily predate this move and bring readers up to speed. As always, Porcellino delivers his trademarked style to bear on those key quotidian moments in life that prompt reflection and meditation on meaning and significance, as he moves through life accompanied by pen, ink and paper.
Tel-Tales #1	Dan Zettwoch	Self-published	Tel-Tales	$3.00 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Dan Z has done it again! The mega-master of industrial art comics has given us a perfect blend of form and content in Tel-Tales. This pint-sized wonder is based on a story by Dan's dad, Don "Toots" Zettwoch that tells the tale of the good ol' days of telephone call switching that involved actual human beings – as well as the "ancient & mysterious 8-Board" – that existed before the days of fully automated digital switching, not to mention cell phones, FOIP and Skype, which are putting the entire infrastructure of plain old telephone calling into the dumpster. And that's just where the Bell System punched cards that are used here as the cover were likely headed before rescued by the Zettwoch Comics Co. and put to such perfect use. Just take our word for it: THIS is a comic book. BACK IN STOCK! We now have received a stock of the second printing of this swell mini. Please note that the card stock cover of this second printing is off white, not the green that is pictured; it is the same in all other particulars.
Study Group 12 #4	Theo Ellsworth, Jim Rugg, Dan Zettwoch, Edward Bak and more ...	Study Group	Study Group 12	$20.00 ($20.00 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Zack Soto After, what? five years? we have another issue of Study Group 12. This one is the grandest yet. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" , with 72 pages printed in navy blue, eight extra pages with an additional layer of magenta, and then all wrapped up in a hand silk-screened cover in aqua and pink. This package holds quite a lot of talent. Creators included in this issue are Theo Ellsworth, Jim Rugg, Dan Zettwoch, T Edward Bak, Richard Hahn, John Vermilyea, Michael DeForge, Vanessa Davis, Farel Dalrymple, Aidan Koch, and plenty more. The front cover is by editor, Zack Soto; back cover by Mr. DeForge, and endpapers by the esteemed Steven Weissman. This is a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.
Mixed Up	Jim Rugg	Self-published		$3.00 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Here's a brand new mini comic that will be especially enjoyed by those who had a good time trying to figure out the identities of the character mash ups in the various posters executed for the just passed PIX. Mixed Up features 28 mash ups done in a similar fashion (a few of which are actually the ones which were used in the PIX promotions). For those perhaps not quite as well versed in the particulars of comics characters, the best part about it may be the "answer key" at the back of the book, revealing who's who in each. As a result, Mixed Up can double as an excellent parlour game for comics fans everywhere, making it quite the bargain!
Amazing Facts & Beyond #3: Back That Fact Up!	Kevin Huizenga, Dan Zettwoch	Self-published	Amazing Facts & Beyond	$5.00 ($5.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Fun-filled factoids for our times from St. Louis's fighting fabulists. Frequently flying in the face of formality, these forty free-wheeling "fact"-filled fables fulfill the fundamentals. First two issues still available! Feel the frantic flaws in the fabric for free, here.
Emberly Galaxy: A Tribute to Ed Emberly	Joe Kuth, Dan Zettwoch, Chris Cornwell, Dan Moynihan and more ...	Self-published		$10.00 ($12.00 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Joe Kuth Years in the making, this 60-page, horizontally formatted volume contains short pieces by a diverse group of independent comics artists including: Rina Ayuyang, Jeffrey Brown, Chris Cornwell, Warren Craghead, Sam Henderson, Alex Holden, Dan Moynihan, and Dan Zettwoch, as well as editor Kuth himself and a number of others. All pay tribute to the so-imitable Ed Emberly, whose simple how-to-draw books demonstrated how to make the world come alive with a few simple lines.
Stories #3	Martin Cendreda	Self-published	Stories	$3.00 ($3.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Catch Me If You Can Let's keep going in the small press and self-publishing vein. It seems like we're on a roll here. Here we have three all-new minis, all produced, published, packed and shipped by that Angeleno mini-master, Martin Cendreda! The art and production here is top rate and very reasonable priced considering the effort and low print runs. By turns whimsical, satirical and insightful, these are musts for any and all adherents of the mini-comic form. Recommended!
Stories #2	Martin Cendreda	Self-published	Stories	$3.00 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Copy • Matthew and Buster • Swimming • Free Hugs Let's keep going in the small press and self-publishing vein. It seems like we're on a roll here. Here we have three all-new minis, all produced, published, packed and shipped by that Angeleno mini-master, Martin Cendreda! The art and production here is top rate and very reasonable priced considering the effort and low print runs. By turns whimsical, satirical and insightful, these are musts for any and all adherents of the mini-comic form. Recommended!
Stories #1	Martin Cendreda	Self-published	Stories	$3.00 ($3.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	The Green Umbrella Man in the Mirror & Expecting Let's keep going in the small press and self-publishing vein. It seems like we're on a roll here. Here we have three all-new minis, all produced, published, packed and shipped by that Angeleno mini-master, Martin Cendreda! The art and production here is top rate and very reasonable priced considering the effort and low print runs. By turns whimsical, satirical and insightful, these are musts for any and all adherents of the mini-comic form. Recommended!
Goat Helper	Chris Cornwell	Self-published		$1.00 ($1.00 list)
Read more and comment...	This 12-pager by Pittsburgh's foremost formalist and friends serves up a comics meditation on sacrifice, mortality and transformation. The main course consists of a pair of concise genre deconstructions that are simultaneously penetrating and ironic. These are interrupted by a bracing palette-cleanser of fulsome gross-out humor, and followed by a satiric pairing of propaganda and advertising that extends and concludes the theme.
Grixly #11	Nate McDonough	Self-published	Grixly	$1.00 ($1.00 list)
Read more and comment...	While we're on the topic of monthly comic books made in Pittsburgh, the trend-setting example of Nate McDonough is of paramount importance, as he has managed the impressive feat of writing, penciling, inking, lettering and publishing no less than thirteen issues of Grixly within – roughly – the past year. Grixly will put you right smack dab in the middle of the Yinzer Zone™: not a dimension of sight or of sound, but of mind; a particular mind – that of a dedicated cartoonist living in Pittsburgh. So, as a result, while much of the work you will find in the pages of Grixly – the first twelve issues of which are filled with a hodge podge of short stories, vignettes, anecdotes and fantasias – are straight-up auto-bio, readers will also often confront work that is the depiction of an actual event that took place not on the streets or in rooms of tha 'Burgh, but rather in the imagination of the person whose life has been impacted and imprinted by these. Beginning with the thirteenth and latest issue, however, McDonough is down-shifting to a bi-monthly schedule, with the aim of producing longer issue-length works. It should be interesting...

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