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MOME #20 Eric Reynolds, Josh Simmons, Dash Shaw, Jeffrey Tinder and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		Highlights this time around include Dash Shaw's comics adaptation of an episode of "Blind Date," which provides an opportunity for some reflection on the respective formal qualities of the mediums of television and comics; the second installment of Josh Simmons's way-crazy "The White Rhinoceros":"Time and Space" by Jeffrey Tinder; "Green House" by Aidan Koch; and "Magpie Inevitability" by Nate Neal.  Also on hand are works by Sara Edward-Corbett, T. Edward Bak, Conor O'Keefe, Michael Jada & Derek Can Gieson, Steven Weissman, Sergio Ponchione, Nicholas Mahler, Ted Stearn and Adam Grano.  Happy twentieth issue, MOME!
MOME #19: Summer 2010 Edward Bak, Robert Goodin, Conor O'Keefe, Tim Lane and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		Whew!  This issue of MOME is a frantic roller coaster ride of graphilocity that left our mind reeling.  The journey begins with this issue's bifurcated cover, which sets the stage for the lead story:  the first part of Josh SImmons new serial, The White Rhinoceros.  We are then treated to "The Imaginist," Olivier Schrauwen's most fully realized work to date.  Next up is Gilbert Hernandez with a new tale of the one and only Roy!  Then hold onto your hats for the precipitous plunge that is the tale of "Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt."  Within this work's 21 tumultuous pages, author/artist, D.J. Bryant has penned a demonically deft deconstruction of "Driven to Destruction," a 1970s Steve Ditko story originally published in Haunted #4 published by Charlton Comics, that infers (with a little help from Ditko's sideline of bondage comics) a torturous sexual repression at the heart of Ditko's seventies sensibility.  So as not to give anyone the wrong idea,  let us be clear and state that "ED-H" is a story that is fully capable of standing on its own merits, that can (and will) be wholly appreciated without any knowledge of the work of Steve Ditko; the Ditko angle is, however, vertigo inducing to all long time fans of his work.  Then we have Tim Lane's "Hitchhiker," a tale full of Lane's trademarked dark and foreboding pen and ink work, but one that takes an unexpected turn.  We then take a pastoral pass through the pastel colorings of Conor O'Keefe in "Vote Lily at the Dog Show" before being put through the twisted sensibility of Robert Goodin in "The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung."  MOME 19 then closes with the latest chapter in T. Edward Bak's Wild Man.  Whew, indeed.
MOME: Spring 2010 #18 Eric Reynolds, Nate Neal, Frank Santoro, Ben Jones and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		This issue's editorial claims that, with the publication of MOME 18, MOME has now published over 2000 pages of comics, and that this "may be a record for an English-language alternative comics anthology."  Who knew?  To start off the celebration we have Nate Neal's cover feature, the multi-layered and multi-levelled, "Neurotic Nexus of Creation."  This one should leave you with much to ponder, especially regarding its innovative formal qualities, but as well as for its worldview.  Of special interest to Copacetic customers is the latest message from the Cold Heat universe, brought to you by the combined powers of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and John Vermilyea.  This feature is a vigorously rendered and sumptously colored tale of drugs, rock 'n' roll, sex, and gruesome horror.  Also in this issue we have:  an all-new Tim Lane tale, "The Passenger"; a surprise new Pip and Norton adventure from Dave Cooper and Gavin McInnes; "Burrow World," wherein Joe Daly does Mat Brinkman;  three short pieces by Nicolas Mahler; the third installment of Fuz & Pluck in "The Moolah Tree"; the second installments of both T. Edward Bak's WIldman – "A Barvarian Botanist in St. Petersburg," and Michael Jada & Derek Van Gieson's "Devil Doll"; a four-pager by Lilli Carré that had us thinking of old Rick Geary; the pastoral "Autumn" by Conor O'Keefe; more René French; and the Chris Ware homage, "The Jerk Machine," by Jon Adams.  MOME!
MOME #14 Emile Bravo, Gilbert Shelton, John Vermilyea, Ben Jones and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $13.50
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Read more and comment... 		Another fine issue from the recently reenergized MOME.  This issue's standout feature is Lilli Carré's, full-color, 32-page piece (graphic novella?), "The Carnival," that is a dream-like meditation on the desires that flow just below the surface of the quotidian, desires that are constantly struggling to break through, and yet seem always to be mysteriously held back by... what exactly?  "The Carnival" doesn't pretend to give you the answers, but it will help put you in a place where you might find some on your own.  The highlight for us here at Copacetic is an all-new Cold Heat tale by Frank Santoro, Ben Jones and John Vermilyea (who also turns in a solo piece here that has to be one of the most pithy portrayals of the American Way ever penned).  And there's plenty more including the continuation of Gilbert Shelton's multi-part saga which reveals -- among other things -- that he, along with fellow underground comix grandmaster, R. Crumb, is a lifelong Carl Barks fan. Emile Bravo provides a deeply sarcastic satire of American Politics; Ray Fenwick, Laura Park, Dash Shaw, Sara Edward-Corbett, Olivier Schrauwen, Josh Simmons and Conor O'Keefe are all on hand, and are joined by newcomers (to American Comics) Hernán Migoya & Juaco Vizuente; and the entire issue is punctuated by a series of one-pages by Derek Van Gieson.
MOME #1 Gary Groth, Eric Reynolds Fantagraphics MOME $14.95
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Read more and comment... 		It's here, the leading contender for best new comics anthology of 2005.  Filled with swell new comics by the likes of Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Sophie Crumb, David Heatly, Paul Hornschemeier, John Pham, Kurt Wolfgang and more.  Solid, engaging work by many of the best of the latest generation of comics creators, nicely packaged in a well printed edition that is currently scheduled to continue on a semi-annual basis.  Looks like it's off to an excellent start!  To learn more, read our detailed review.
MOME #12 Eric Reynolds, Gary Groth Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		MOME delivers another top notch issue featuring:  David B., with the third in his series of amazing medieval tales, "The Drum Who Fell in Love"; "Dirty Family Laundry," a tense and intense tale by last issue's cover featured artist, Killoffer; "Train" by Dash Shaw; a handful of one-pagers by Tom Kaczynski;  a stroll down history lane by Sophie Crumb; Nate Neal's "Reality Comics Quartet," which is almost a comic book in and of itself; Ray Fenwick's continued adventures of "The Truth Bear"; another dose of creepiness courtesy Al Columbia; and the rookie efforts of newcomers Sara Edward-Corbett, Olivier Schrauwen, Jon Vermilyea and Derek Van Gieson.   Recommended.
MOME #3 Eric Reynolds, Gary Groth, David B., Andrice Arp and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		Well, the undisputed highlight of this issue is an all-new 36-page piece by David B. (Epileptic) titled "The Armed Garden". Yes!  Along side of this is a line-up up the ususal MOME suspects: Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan Bennett, Jeffrey Brown, Martin Cendreda, David Heatley, Anders Nilsen, and Kurt Wolfgang, who is the interviewee this time around. (Concerned MOME devotees may be assured that both John Pham and Paul Hornschemeier will return in the next issue) R. Kikuo Johnson (Night Fisher) takes a bow in this issue with a series of three-panel strips featuring "Cher Shimura."  MOME is fast becoming the official "little literary magazine" of the comics world.  If you've read an issue already, you know what we're talking about; if you haven't, this is a good time to find out for yourself.  To learn more, visit our MOME page.
MOME #6 (Winter 2007) Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Lewis Trondheim, Tim Hensley and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Eric Reynolds and Gary Groth Yes, we have all the ususal suspects again this time around -- J. Bennett, J. Brown, Sophie Crumb, M. Cenreda, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, David Heatley, Tim Hensley, and some pretty amazing apocryphal neo-romance covers by R. Kikuo Johnson -- but there are a couple new entries from Europe that are quite worth noting:  Lewis Trondheim makes his MOME debut with the first part of his new comics diary, Loose Ends; and Vosges Studio co-founder, Émile Bravo provides this issue's standout story, The Brothers Ben Qutuz in "Frustration Land."  This ten page pantomime (no text or dialogue) story -- enabling it to be read and understood without it having to be translated -- is a startlingly succinct exegesis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as experienced at street level on the Palestinian side, that will invade your consciousness and refuse to leave; a perfect example of the value of comics as a form of commmunication.