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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!
POOD #3 Jim Rugg, Hans Rickheit, Adam McGovern, Paolo Leandri and more ... Big If POOD $4.00
($4.50 list)
Pood3
Read more and comment... 		And then there's this!  sixteen mammoth 16" x 22" newsprint pages in alternating full color and black & white.  Each gigantic page offers up a complete work by an individual creator or creative team – 15 in all, along with one page of editorial content.  There's some really worthwhile work here.  First off two of the top teams in indy comics are on hand here:  Jim Rugg & Brian Maruca deliver another cartoon deconstruction of US foreign policy in their latest US APE tale, "Chernobyl," while Adam McGovern & Paola Leandri splice 60's Kirbyisms onto Orphic lyrics to create a poetic comics evocation of the primal muse in "Spirit Media."  Hans Rickheit brings us once again into his finely rendered dream world with "Cochlea and Eustachia."  And, there's plenty more before the book closes out with two pages of full color splendor with "Zizmo and the Escapists" by Tobias Tak and "World Excursion" by Bishakh Som.
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.
MOME: Summer 2009 #15 Nathan Neal, Robert Goodin, Conor O'Keefe, Sara Edward-Corbett and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.99 list)
Mome15
Read more and comment... 		This issue is a mix of oldtimers and newcomers:  rugged MOME veterans, Andrice Arp, Paul Hornschemeier, Ray Fenwick, and Tim Hensley deliver a basket full of tales, each in their own inimitable manner, and, in Hensley's case, his last (at least for the time being) as his triptych concludes the long running (since MOME #5) saga of Wally Gropius; medium-term MOMErs, Dash Shaw, Sara Edward-Corbett, Conor O'Keefe, Robert Goodin and Nathan Neal each provide readers with memorable reads, with Neal turning in his strongest narrative yet; and Gilbert Shelton and Pic conclude their tale of rock 'n' roll at the world's edge.  And then we have the newcomers:  T. Edward Bak debuts here with the first chapter of his work in progress, Steller, as do Noah Van Scriver and noted Spanish cartoonist, Max, whose contribution is a nice, neat 16-page mini-comic that is precisely positioned (and presumably removable – although it's readable while in place) after the last page.  All in all, another fine issue.