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Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Freddy Stories	Melissa Mendes	Self-published		$9.00 ($10.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Ms. Mendes has, with Freddy Stories, produced a collection of vignettes of life as seen and experienced from a child's perspective which are simply spot on, and demonstrate an abundance of sympathy for the condition of child consciousness. Accurately recreating a child's state of mind and world view is especially difficult to manage in any medium, but comics' formal qualities have seemed to have provided creators with a toolkit well adapted for exactly this job. Even so, the vast majority of comics deptictions of childhood are mawkish, simpering, sentimental and just plain wrong. Here, in what is – sadly – one of the last books that will be funded by the Xeric Foundation, Center for Cartoon Studies graduate Melissa Mendes gets it right, and has produced a work that truly captures one of the most elusive of artistic subjects – the child mind. See what we're talking by taking a look at this excerpt of the first few pages.
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!
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
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!
Unicorn Mountain, Volume 2	Curt Gettman, Frank Santoro, Juliacks, Paulette Poullet and more ...	Self-published	Unicorn Mountain	$12.00 ($15.00 list)
Read more and comment...	As the cover states, this is a compendium of comics, writing and music. Edited once again by Curt Gettman, this time around Unicorn Mountain is a chunky 206-page squarebound squareformat anthology printed in umber ink on flat white paper of (mostly) Pittsburgh culture that contains an eclectic 21-track CD, all for less than the prie of the average stand-alone CD! Made possible in part by a grant from the seemingly omnipresent Sprout Fund, this issue is a big step up from the first issue. Highlights include "Thousands of Mistakes" by Frank Santoro, "Niran and Theola" by Curt Gettman and Owl Kahol Systems (a pseudonym for a local comics artist), "Like Lace" by JULIACKS, "Rock & You" by Paulette Poullet, a two-page untitled piece by Brian Maruca and Jim Rugg of Street Angel fame, and a fistful of untitled illustrations by Paper Rad. The material on the CD ranges far and wide and includes new tunes by Modey Lemon, Oneida, Ex-Models, Elf Power and Pink Mountaintops. The Karl Hendricks Rock Band's "The Last Uncompromising Hardcore Band" will have you tapping your toes and singing along before you even realize it.
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).
Bound & Gagged	Andrice Arp, Marc Bell, Chris Cilla, Michael DeForge and more ...	Self-published		$10.00 ($10.00 list)
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!
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!
Mineshaft #24	R. Crumb, Mary Fleener	Self-published	Mineshaft	$6.95 ($6.95 list)
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Mineshaft #25	R. Crumb	Self-published	Mineshaft	$7.00 ($7.00 list)
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Mineshaft #26	R. Crumb, David Collier, Dennis Eichhorn	Self-published	Mineshaft	$9.00 ($9.00 list)
Read more and comment...	The old folks' fanzine is back, with one of the best issues yet. Starting off with the latest installment of R. Crumb's dream diary along with a pair of R. Crumb sketches, this issue features a great lineup of comics, including two by Copacetic fave, David Collier (one of which is written by auto-bio comics champ, Dennis Eichhorn), J.R. Helton and Pat Moriarity (who also contributed this issue's cover), Aleksandar Zograf, and a truly fine tale by Nina Bunjevac, along with some mighty nice illustrations by Christoph Mueller and William Crook, Jr. (who also offers his thoughts on the subject of his drawings), poetry by Diane DiPrima and more! Added bonus: an R. Crumb portrait of Wallace Wood adorns the back cover.
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.
Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory	Eroyn Franklin	Self-published		$23.75 ($25.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Here's a truly unique graphic novel in which the visual component is rendered entirely in cut paper silhouettes. The recipient of a Xeric grant, this horizontally formatted hardcover has been produced in a hand numbered edition of 1000, each of which copies is accompanied by a hand cut and printed dust jacket. Eroyn Franklin is a Seattle-based artist who works in a variety of mediums. Visit her website to learn more, where, if you are so inclined, you can read the entirety of Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory, here.
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.

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