Hot off the press, it's the latest publication from Bubbles Press. And here's what the publisher, Brian Baynes, has to say about it:
"The third book from Bubbles and the first collected works from Anand, one of India's best young cartoonists. Born, raised and based in Delhi he's been self-publishing a one-man anthology called Zoo for a few years now, and inside this collection is the first three issues. I first read Anand's Zoo a couple of years ago and I was immediately struck by his creative storytelling. Incredibly human narratives that come with a dash of surrealism and comedy. A fantastic brushstroke to guide you through these eight amazing comics. I'm very excited to be publishing his work for the first time in America, truly one of my favorite artists going."
It runs 120 magazine-size (8 1/2" x 11") pages, and is printed in black and white offset on high quality newsprint, making for a nice feel and an absorbing reading experience. Comics!
Here's an issue sure to appeal to a wide swath of Copacetic customers. Edited by Caroline Cash, it includes equal parts hepster faves fromn the USA and new-to-us experimenters from Europe.
If there's anyone reading this who has yet to try an issue of this long-running international comics anthology, this might be the issue to go out on a limb and try one of these pint-size powerhouses.
Cover: Caroline Cash (USA) Contributors: Anand (India), Caroline Cash (USA), Elizabeth Pich (Germany), Emma Hunsinger (USA), Gabriel Mason Howell (USA), Heather Loase (USA), Hetamoe (Portugal), Ivo Puiupo (Portugal), Jana Ribkina (Latvia), Jurijs Tatarkins (Latvia), Konig Lu. Q. (Switzerland), Leo Fox (UK), Margot Sounack (France), Martins Zutis (Latvia), Momo Gordon (Germany), M.S. Harkness (USA), Tara Booth (USA), Vivanna Maria Stanislavska(Latvia), Yasmeen Abedifard (USA), Zane Zlemesa (Latvia) Guest Editor: Caroline Cash (USA)
Format: A6*, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, environmentally friendly Munken paper. * (note to newbies: the A6 format translates to 4" x 6").
Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Imported from India by Bubbles Press, here's the latest from the one-man comics powerhouse, Anand! 72 (roughly) magazine-sized pages make up this attractively printed squarebound edition of the fifth issue of Zoo, which consists of three long-ish stories: "Notty Sis-In-Law: A 4 Ears Story"; "One Foot in the Grave"; and "Vulture", the destined-to-be-a-future-classic meditation on the life of the artist, creativity, ethics, the question of originality, and... comics! which, alone, is worth the price of admission; and a few assorted short-shorts to round out the edition.
AND: All orders for this issue also come with w 32-page digest-size comic book, 4 Ears: The Story So Far..., (re)presenting the first appearance of the character 4 Ears (who appears in the lead story) from Zoo #2.
We just scored TWO copies (*both include 4 Ears: The Story So Far..., just FYI) of this now out of print (at least in the USA) classic!
Limit: ONE per customer...
It's here! The the latest issue of the always all new, all hand-printed comics anthology edited and published by Andrew Alexander – Cram! This time around, "Comics" has been appended to the title, so, evidently, this fifth issue is Cram Comics. And what comics!
This issue feels like the best yet. From the literary approach, most notably embodied in the oblique, slow burning fuse of Cameron Arthur's "Sacred Heart" and the complex character construction of Anad's "The River Keeps on Flowing", to the personal comics flavored with expressionism along with a (fun) sense of the absurd, as we find, to varying degrees, in James Collier's "We're Here", Sam Szabo's "The Enlightened Transsexual in: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testosterone Blocker" and Syd Madia's "All the Time Aquatics", to the anecdotal, insightful and humorous storytelling of Swayam Parekh's "Shabana, I Hate Tears" and Médar de la Cruz & Médar Serrata's "Fixing It", to Nate Doyle's impassioned, graphicly bold working through grief in comics form, "Earthling", to Michael Kennedy's masterclass in how to unlock the power of visual communication inherent in comics, "Jumbie's Muse", this issue of Cram Comics, which also features a wraparound cover by Lillian Ansell, has it all! And remember, it's a limited edition, hand-printed (on heavy flat white stock) risograph, in full color, duotone and black & white as per each work's requirements. Don't miss it!
After spending time with this issue, one gets the feeling that of looking through a window at a comics road that stretches long into the future.
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