This first issue of Nincompoop is quite a comic book. Forty, full color, Golden Age comic book size pages brimming over with densely packed, finely rendered old school comics that should be welcomed with open arms into the homes of readers of Hup, Eightball, Collier's, Blammo, Happy Hour in America and other such fine comic books that place an emphasis on combining quality writing in art in the service of creating finely crafted comics. Check in with Mueller HERE and take a look at the kind of work you can expect to find populating the pages of this swell comic book, which, by the way, has been produced in a run of only 500 copies, so don't delay!
Believe it or not, Mineshaft #45 is the 25th Anniversary Issue! How?!?
It features a trippy-yet-appropriate wrap-around cover by Aaron Horkey, along with a slew of new work by a bigger than ever roster of contributors, including R. Crumb, Drew Friedman, Aaron Horkey, Billy Childish, Mary Fleener, Christoph Mueller, Gunnar Lundkvist, Simone Baumann, David Collier, Glenn Head, Aaron Lange, Kim Deitch, Sophie Crumb, Bill Crook, Max Clotfelter, Robert Armstrong and Kayla E.
Also: letters from around the world & more!
We have it on good authority that this issue will be selling out (from the publisher at least) faster than usual. So... you know what to do.
It's here, the latest issue of the long running magazine for comics die-hards, featuring generations-spanning work from true comickers.
Issue highlight => R. Crumb vs. ChatGBT – ultimate throwdown! (this is a textual transcription of the actual back and forth; not comics, just to be clear)
Here's the publisher hype-up:
Featuring dynamite front cover art by Christoph Mueller, with beautiful back cover art by R. Crumb! Plus... new work by R. Crumb "Discussion with Chat GPT", Christoph Mueller, Jim Blanchard, Drew Friedman, Aaron Horkey (inside front cover), Brandon Holt, Simone Baumann, Denis Kitchen, David Collier, Glenn Head, Thomas Ott, Jose Arroyo, Bill Griffith, Mary Fleener, Sophie Crumb & Kian Radpouyan, Paul Karasik, Robert Armstrong, Tony O'Neill, Letters from Around the World (including Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, William Crook, Aaron Horkey, Sammy Harkham, Drew Friedman, Christoph Mueller), & MORE!!! First printing. 60 pages. 1,200 copies printed on offset Press, with sewn binding, in Denmark in November/December, 2025. Cover printed on Swedish Munken Polar Rough 300 gram Cover paper with Munken Lynx Rough interior pages.
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
September 8, 2026 UPDATE: Mineshaft #48 is HERE!!! GIANT 68 page issue! Cover art by Simone Baumann, plus new work by Drew Friedman, Aaron Horkey, Kim Deitch, Mary Fleener, Christoph Mueller, Tony O'Neill, Sophie Crumb, David Collier, Billy Childish, Max Clotfelter, Paul Karasik, Thomas Ott, Special Feature: INK AGASSIZ - Minnesota's Illustrated Underground (title & masthead by Aaron Horkey plus art by Horkey, Todd Bratrud, Jessica Seamans, Brandon Holt, Zak Sally, Malena Handeen, Mike Sutfin, Teagan White, and Dan Black)! ...Letters from Around the World (including R. Crumb on the Middle Ages) & MORE!!!
