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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Belly Button Comics #2 Sophie Crumb $4.45
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Read more and comment... 		Well, she's back:  it's one year later and the daughter of Aline Kominsky and R. Crumb has put out another comic; and if you're interested in knowing what kind of heir the reigning king and queen of underground comics have produced, here's where you'll find out.  Based on the evidence of this comic, the news is surprisingly good:  it's witty, insightful, self-deprecating and funny!  Sophie Crumb is off to a good start.  Let's wish her luck and hope that she keeps it up as long as her parents.  32 pages
MOME #2 John Pham, Paul Hornschemeier, Jeffrey Brown, David Heatley and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $13.50
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Read more and comment... 		It's finally here, after a regrettable delay:  the second issue of the most engaging regularly published comics anthology currently on the market.  This issue continues to meet the high standards set by the first issue and includes the entire roster of contributors.  Highlight:  Jeffrey Brown redeems his shallow submission to the first issue by turning in one of his best pieces to date.  Recommended!  To learn more about MOME, please visit our MOME 1 page. 
MOME #4 Gary Groth, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, R. Kikuo Johnson and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		Another great issue of the comics anthology you can't afford to miss is now on our shelves.  The highlight of this issue is another wonderful mythical/historical comics novella by David B., "The Veiled Prophet."  Also on offer are a great new story by Martin Cendreda, "La Brea Woman" that shows him moving in a new direction.  And the gang's all here:  John Pham returns to 221 Sycamore Avenue to provide the cover along with the dream landscape of a high school teacher and his family; Sophie Crumb returns with more tales of street urchins on drugs, Jonathan Bennet and Gabrielle Bell take deft turns at depicting urban melancholy; Jeffrey Brown steps out of his comfort zone and turns in an atypical (and metaphorical) tale of existential angst; and David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Kurt Wolfgang and R. Kikuo Johnson each do their thing and do it well, rounding out another issue where everything is good!
MOME #7: Spring 2007 Al Columbia, Andrice Arp, Kurt Wolfgang, Eleanor Davis and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		This issue finds MOME at a crossroads of sorts as this is the the last time -- at least for now -- that it will feature work by the core of MOME regulars Anders Nilsen -- who also provides this issue's interview -- Jeffrey Brown, Gabrielle Bell and Martin Cendreda all of whom except Brown (who is, evidently,  already gone) turn in their farewell pieces this issue.  New team-MOME members premiering here are self-publishing stalwarts Eleanor Davis and Tom Kaczynzki who both turn in the first of what promises to be a string of fine pieces, and we can only presume that they will be joined next issue with more voices from the alterna-ground.  Also on hand this issue is cover artist, Lewis Trondheim's hybrid/sketchbook/collage comics work, "At Loose Ends, Part 2," continued from last time.  Sophie Crumb --  about whom we admit to having been a bit skeptical, at first -- has proven herself a keen observer of humanity in her short pieces for MOME, and her contributions this time around are some of her finest to date.  David Heatley and Kurt Wolfgang soldier on with their respective continuing sagas; Andrice Arp and Paul Hornschemeier both shift gears -- Arp with a dream piece and Paul H. with a couple of oddball toyings with  words and pictures; finally, "weird" Al Columbia turns in a batch of "Chopped-Up People."  You have been warned.