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Papercutter

Published quarterly in Portland, Oregon by Tugboat Press, Papercutter is possibly the best standard 32-page, comic book size anthology title currently on the market.  High production values deliver quality work issue after  issue.


Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Papercutter #9 Hellen Jo, Aron Nels Steinke, Elijah Brubaker Tugboat Press Papercutter $3.50
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Read more and comment... 		TUGBOAT SEZ:  "The hauntingly beautiful ninth issue of the acclaimed anthology series dedicated to showcasing the best young, underexposed and emerging comic book artists is here. Aron Nels Steinke (Big Plans) presents the featured story about a young couple living in a haunted house and the strange dreams that plague the owners. Elijah Brubaker (Reich) tries to find hope while in line for the ATM. And Hellen Jo (Jin and Jam) tells the tale of the spookiest back street in San Francisco." Inside front and back covers by stalwart Tugboater, Nate Beaty.
Papercutter #7 Aron Nels Steinke, Andy Hartzell, MK Reed, Jonathan Hill and more ... Tugboat Press Papercutter $3.50
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Read more and comment... 		Another fine issue of this perky peppy anthology published in Portland, Oregon by Tugboat Press.  This time around we have an epic of 8th grade outsiders by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill followed by a one-pager by Aron Nels Steinke and a striking adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Sheperdess and the Chimney Sweep" by Andy Hartzell, who has clearly built on the momentum of his successful Fox Bunny Fox and turned in his finest work to date here.  We can't wait for the next issue!
Papercutter #5 Bwana Spoons, Liz Prince, Kazimir Strzepek Tugboat Press Papercutter $2.75
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Read more and comment... 		#5 features a Kazimir Strzepek ("Mourning Star") story about a post-apocalypic world where two rival gangs battle for control of a war torn city along with new work by Liz Prince ("Will Your Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed") and Bwana Spoons ("Pencil Fight").
Papercutter #11 Nate Beaty, Rosalie Eisenberg, Dustin Harbin, Jon Sukarangsan and more ... Tugboat Press Papercutter $3.50
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Read more and comment... 		Papercutter #11 The latest issue of our favorite regularly published comics anthology debuted at SPX, and it's another issue that no indy comics fan will want to miss.  The bulk of the issue – 26 pages and one front cover worth, to be exact – are devoted to "Lululand," a slice of life  vignette of the life of Lulu a wondering and wandering washer of dishes and dreamer of dreams trying to figure it out that is imagined by writer Amy Adoyzie and diligently delineated by Jon Sukarangsan.  Backing this up is "Duperman," a snappy one-pager by your friend and mine, Dustin Harbin, and "Letter Home," a story of schoolwork vs. artwork by someone who should know, the Portland, OR artist and educator, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg, who takes us through to the back cover.  Inside covers by Nate Beaty.  Edited by Greg Means
Papercutter #10 Dominic Jay, Jesse Reklaw, Minty Lewis Tugboat Press Papercutter $3.50
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Read more and comment... 		While perhaps not in quite the rarefied Olympian strata as Uptight, Papercutter nonetheless continues to get our vote as the best ongoing, regularly published (here is where it trounces Uptight - five issues of Papercutter have been published in the interregnum between the last two issues of Uptight), anthology comic book title currently on the market.  High quality production and simple, spot-on design showcase uniformly excellent work by many of today's top independent comics creators (with a special focus on those in and around Papercutter-publisher, Tugboat Press's stomping grounds, Portland, OR).  All for a quite reasonable price.  And it's regular publication schedule (Well, they may miss a deadline once in a while, but the key fact is that they have a deadline in the first place, and that they actually care if they miss it; this sets them apart in the relatively lackadaisical world of indy comics publishing.  #10 is a family affair of sorts in that it is primarily composed of two stories by the comics couple of Jay and Lewis, who are kept at arms length from one another by the centerfold executed by the one and only Jesse Reklaw.