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Typewriter #6 Nick Bertozzi, Kurt Wolfgang, Dylan Williams, Nicolas Robel and more ... Self-published $9.00
($10.00 list)

Read more and comment... 		<<•>>  edited and published by David Youngblood  <<•>>  One of the highlights of the 2003 SPX, and one of the best anthologies of the year, this 160 page squarebound volume features a lot of great work by a lot of great people like Souther Salazar, Sammy Harkham, Josh Simmons, Kurt Wolfgang, Farel Dalrymple, Dylan Williams, Marc Bell, Paul Hornschemeier, Nick Bertozzi, and Pittsburgh's own Jim Rugg, among many others!  The concept with this issue is that each story must begin with the sentence that the previous story ended with.  This is one of the best out there: small press, community building, unique, original and good.  Long out of print, but we just discovered that we have a secret stash!  2003 • 160 pages • B & W
MOME #22 Kurt Wolfgang, Tom Kaczynski, Joe Kimball, Eleanor Davis and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $17.77
($19.99 list)
Mome22
Read more and comment... 		edited by Eric Reynolds Say it isn't true!  Sadly, this is the end of the road for the most innovative and challenging regularly published English language comics anthology of the twenty-first century.  But they're going out with a bang!  MOME 22 is a wallopin' 240-page double issue that is a veritable gathering of MOME alumni (along with some notable last-minute newcomers) featuring 30 artists, including Kurt Wolfgang, Tom Kaczynski, Joe Kimball, Eleanor Davis, Anders Nilsen, Tim Hensley, Paul Hornschemeier, Gabrielle Bell, Zak Sally, Jesse Moynihan, Malachi Ward, James Romberger, Nick Drnaso, Joseph Lambert, Nick Thorburn, Victor Kerlow, Jim Rugg, Chuck Forsman, Sergio Ponchione, Steven Weissman, Sara Edward-Corbett, Laura Park, Josh Simmons, Derek Van Gieson (with collaborator Michael Jada), Tim Lane, Nate Neal, Lilli Carré, T. Edward Bak, Dash Shaw, Ted Stearn and Noah Van Sciver.  Whew!  Get a heaping helping of PDF preview, here.
Bound & Gagged Andrice Arp, Marc Bell, Chris Cilla, Michael DeForge and more ... Self-published $10.00
($10.00 list)
Boundgag
Read more and comment... 		   <<•>>  curated by Tom Neely  <<•>>  This compendium of 71 single-panel gag cartoons from the world of independent comics is a genuine goldmine of unique comics work.  Who's in this comical compendium?  Well, hold on to your hats for this partial list:  Andrice Arp, Marc Bell, Chris Cilla, Michael DeForge, Kim Deitch, Theo Ellsworth, Robert Goodin, Juliacks, Kaz, Anders Nilsen, Jason Overby, John Porcellino (whose lead-off contribution had us wondering if perhaps he hadn't missed his calling as a New Yorker cartoonist), Jesse Reklaw, Zak Sally, Josh Simmons, Matthew Thurber, Noah Van Sciver, Dylan Williams, Chris Wright and more!!! In full color and black & white.   Anyone who misses out on this will be kicking themselves for years to come.  Don't let yourself be one of them!
MOME #15 Dash Shaw, Nicolas Mahler, Josh Simmons, T. Edward Bak and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $13.75
($14.99 list)
Mome21
Read more and comment... 		<<• edited by Eric Reynolds •>>  We are sad to announce that this is the penultimate issue of MOME.  Highlights this time around must start off with a new Tom Kaczynski tale, "The Cozy Apocalypse."  Also notable are a full-color two-pager by Lilli Carré, a nifty-in-a-very-dark-way three-pager by Jon Adams, the highly Hankiewicz-esque cover story by Sara Edward-Corbett, along with new work by Steve Weissman, Kurt Wolfgang, Josh Simmons (2!), T. Edward Bak, Nicolas Mahler, Dash Shaw, Sergio Ponchione, Nate Neal, Nick Thorburn and Michael Jada & Derek Van Gieson.  Savor these tales.
MOME #20 Eric Reynolds, Josh Simmons, Dash Shaw, Jeffrey Tinder and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.95 list)
Mome20
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
($14.95 list)
Mome19
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.
Jessica Farm #1 Josh Simmons $9.95
($14.95 list)
Jessicafarm
Read more and comment... 		96 pages that depict a morning in the life of the titular character -- Christmas morning -- and which, if we are to believe the artist's afterword, took eight years to draw.  While the artwork is very spatially oriented and creates a solid sense of place, one is best off assuming that the "true" location of the places depicted here is the imagination.  Crazy fun that is all topped off by the fact that it ends with a cliffhanger that -- we are told -- we will have to wait until 2016 to find out what happens next!