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• Wanna see Roger Langridge's poster for October's Comic Festival in London? Here it is!

• Dave Roman reports on the MoCCA festival at the Pulse. [ thanks to Raina Telgemeier who's got a new installment of "Smile" up at Girlamatic today ]

• Speaking of MoCCA, here are some photos courtesy of A. David Lewis and a few from Randy Carboni as well.

• But, wait – there's more! A MoCCA report from Sean T. Collins and a few photos from Eric Knisley.

• A new issue of Arthur is out (the one with Kim Gordon on the cover) with Kevin Huizenga, Ben Jones, Ben Katchor and more.

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• For fans of Jeff Nicholson's Colonia, the wait is over – #9 hits stores this week.

• Paul 'Mooncat' Schroeder recently started up this great sketchbook blog.

• Hey, look, photos from the MoCCA festival courtesy Brian Musikoff. If you've got links for others, please send 'em.

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Included in this issue:

• about 200 reviews of zines, books, and other publications.
• an extensively updated list of zine libraries and infoshops, now including a brief description as well as full contact info. (This updated list can be found on our website as well.)
• news, including articles on students being punished for websites they've created, the Bush administration's use of fake journalists to propagandize, Tower's recent bankruptcy and reemergence, censorship, and the perils of open records requests.
• Throwing off the Shackles: How to Break Free of Microsoft, part 1
• Word of Mouth, including store reports, address changes, event listings, discussions about printing, and other announcements. (Event listings can also be found on our website.)
• striking cover art by Sharon McGill, and interior art by Dave Kiersh, David Crockett, and Sue Clancy.

With #21 we have cut the number of pages. Because of the drop to 48 pages, we're also dropping the price. Single issues are now $3 US, $4 Canada, $5 overseas. Subscriptions are $10 for 4 issues US, $14 Canada, $18 overseas.

Current subscribers – those of you who have paid our previous higher subscription price – will receive a credit toward future issues. I'll include a note with #21 informing you of how many issues you will be credited.

Be the first kid on your block to own a copy! Send payment in cash, stamps, or money order (payable to Jerianne) – no checks – to:

Zine World
PO Box 330156
Murfreesboro TN 37133

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• Word has it that the June/July issue of The Door Magazine features a back cover, as well as an interior piece, by Jim Siergey.

• A new issue of New Zealand anthology Funtime Comics Presents is out. More info here.

• The Pulse has got this year's Harvey Awards winners as announced at this past weekend's MoCCA Art Festival in New York.

• Although it doesn't seem to be on their website, I'm told that this week's Chicago Reader features a cover story on Wacky Packages' history and latest incarnation that includes a Q&A with Jay Lynch. [ thanks to Jim Siergey ]



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Giant Robot 10 Years
July 3 - August 4
Featuring: Gary Baseman, Mark Ryden, Tim Biskup, Adrian Tomine, Ron Rege Jr., Brian Ralph, kozyndan, David Choe, Martin Cendreda, Souther Salazar, Bwana Spoons, Tom Devlin, Jordan Crane, John Pham, many more.
More info.

Qeedrophonic at OX-OP
Opens July 10
Featuring: Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Mark Mothersbaugh, David Burke, Shag, Clayon Brothers, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Coop, Frank Kozik, Martin Ontiveros, Pizz, Jeff Soto, Bwana Spoons, many more.
More info.

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• Buenaventura Press has announced three new prints in its line-up by Daniel Clowes, Julie Doucet, and Gary Panter. Nice.

• Here's an interesting piece over at Newsarama you may have missed: Top Shelf's Chris Staros on the importance of comic book conventions.

• The Portland Mercury's got an interview with Microcosm Publishing's Joe Biel and Alex Wrekk, organizers of this weekend's Portland Zine Symposium.

• Here's the second part of Peter Bagge's new three-part comic running in The Stranger (Seattle).

• The June 18th episode of National Public Radio's "Day to Day" ran a segment on the Stripdagen Haarlem comics festival, which took place earlier this month in Haarlem, the Netherlands. You can listen to it here. [ thanks to EGON ]

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• Grickle's Graham Annable's got a new website www.grickle.com.

• Toby Craig's new thrice-weekly series, "Punish the Dead", has begun at Modern Tales.

• A new installment of The Comics Journal's online review column "Dogsbody", by Dan Holloway, is up.

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From Shawn Hoke at Broken Frontier:

Coming to you in September 2004, a contest that encourages readers to create their own comic page(s) and be eligible for online shopping sprees and mini-comic packages.

It’s no secret, here at The Wall offices we love mini-comics. We also think that some of the most exciting and groundbreaking work in comics today comes from the ink-stained hands of the under appreciated self-publishers and creators toiling in near obscurity. Now, to get this work into the hands of comic readers, The Wall and Broken Frontier have teamed up with the mini-comics distribution site Bowzizzer to bring you the “FREE MINI-COMICS CONTEST 2004!”

How can you win these photocopied gems? We're glad you asked. In order to be eligible for the contest* you must create a page (or more) of your own new work and send it in to our offices. Email us for the address to send your comic page(s). We don’t care what you choose to make your comic page about or how you create it, just do it. Even if your grasp of anatomy is limited to stick figures, we want to see what you can do. Creating at least a page of your own original comic will give you an idea of what it’s actually like to make a comic.

From Scott Hsu Storaker of Bowzizzer.com: "I have long been a firm believer that in order to have a deep understanding of the medium and be a fan of self-published comics, a reader must also create their own comic at some point. It really magnifies the enjoyment of reading this type of work."

So, what are you waiting for? Grab a pencil, a pen or brush (even crayon) and paper and start drawing.

For more details go to the Broken Frontier site.

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• A number of graphic novels are reviewed in the new Summer issue of Rain Taxi. Perhaps some of them will make it to their website soon. [ thanks to Jeff Mason ]

• Website Israel21c has profiled artist brothers Tomer and Assaf Hanuka.

• Hey, here's a sneak peek at Salgood Sam's new one-man anthology, Revolver.

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Waterwise
by Joel Orff
Imagine a cross between American Splendor and Alice in Wonderland...or imagine a cross between Carl Barks and Carlos Castaneda... In Joel Orff's new graphic novel he explores these concepts and many more. This is the story of two old friends who are reunited for one night and wander together through a surreal, vaguely apocalyptic landscape, pondering life, griping about their circumstances, and trying to connect. Along the way they explore the nature of dreams, the fragile facade of civilization and the tenderness of a true friendship.
- For Mature Readers, 128 pages, 6” x 9”, $14.95. ISBN: 1-891867-82-2


Escalator
by Brandon Graham
It started here and continued to gain momentum. A collection of Brandon Graham's short comics with a cast of sumo heroes, Graffiti writers, truck drivers from the future and alien pornographers as they try to get through their lives with all the demonic possessions and cannibal school girls that get in the way.
- For Mature Readers, 120 pages, $12.95. ISBN: 1-891867-81-4


Turtle, turtle
by Jed Alexander
Just off the coast of an unnamed Mexican town is Porta Tortuga, an Island that no one seems to remember but Cesar, a U.S citizen with a Mexican mother and a Jewish father who spent one unforgettably vivid day at the Island’s Dia de los Phantasmas festival. And just what the Dia de los Phantasmas festival is or where the island can be found no one seems to remember either, or what happened that long ago summer of his childhood on an island whose inhabitants are convinced they live on a giant turtle. Cesar returns to Mexico to try and find the island and to try and decipher memories that he can’t let go of, and to search for his father, who disappeared 15 years earlier, and what the adult Cesar discovers will both demystify these early memories, and reveal an even more impenetrable secret.
- For Mature Readers, 96 pages, 2-color, $11.95. ISBN: 1-891867-65-2


Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers
by Jen Sorensen
As seen in numerous alternative newspapers around the country, it's Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist Jen Sorensen's second collection of her brilliant weekly cartoon "Slowpoke". Through her characters Little Gus, Mr. Perkins, and terminal hornball Drooly Julie, Sorensen slams the Bush regime, vapid trends, and corporate crap with her trademark brand of absurdist humor. Anyone who thinks we're headed to hell in a handbasket will laugh until they cry.
- For Mature Readers, 112 pages, 8” x 8”, $12.95. ISBN: 1-891867-78-4


A Few Perfect Hours and Other Stories From Southeast Asia and Central Europe
by Josh Neufeld
Xeric Award Winner! Autobiographical cartoonist Josh Neufeld (The Vagabonds, Titans of Finance) takes us on an exotic globetrotting tour. Evoking Tintin and the "comics journalism" of Joe Sacco, Neufeld recounts such offbeat adventures as a cave expedition in Thailand, a stint as extras in a Singaporean soap opera, and a train trip through war-torn Serbia. The interlinked collection of stories has the reach of an ambitious graphic novel. Says Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), "I really dig it."
- For Mature Readers, 128 pages, 6-5/8" x 10-1/8”, $12.95. ISBN: 1-891867-79-2


Visit Alternative Comics online at: www.indyworld.com/altcomics


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SZTUKA FABRYKA "Independent Arts"-Festival
Saturday 16 April 2005

Since 1988, the "Independent Arts"-Festival has grown towards an internationally known event for any form of creativity. The aim of the Festival is both to present an overview of independent creativity world wide, performed by communication networks, and to create a meeting place for exchanging the acquired experiences. The Festival mainly focuses
on artistic activities performed in scenes such as home-tape, Mail-Art, street art, small press. On top of that, video, performance and fine art artists do get the possibility to exhibit and perform their creativity. As such, the "Independent Arts"-Festival is unique in its kind.

-o- Street Art: Stencil graffiti, stickering, postering, ... or any form of personal creativity related to street art.
-o- Fine art: Guest exhibitions from local young artists whom did not have, as yet, the possibility to exhibit their artwork.
-o- Mail-Art: Mail-Art or correspondence art has been part of international arts scene since the 50's by means of aesthetic items as rubberstamps, artistamps, artist trading cards, fluxus bucks, decorated postcards, ...
-o- Small press: A view on the scene of independent publications and small press, comic books or artists books. For many years, zines, or self-edited and self-published magazines, have become an essential communication form in several sub-cultures.
-o- Performance: Performance art is, with its mix of fine art and theatre, an almost unknown form of creativity. Spoken word, literature or poetry reading can undeniably be part of the Festival.
-o- Video: The world of moving images has broadened substantially as video, animation, independent film and documentary have been here for ages, with the internet and web-video becoming its most recent additions.
-o- Home-tape: In the homegrown-tape scene, musicians have been recording their synth stuff on cassette tape from the early 80's onwards, and mailing them directly to anyone interested. Since then slowly moving towards CD-recording and creation of new independent labels.

SUBMISSIONS CALL: This Festival offers artists world-wide the opportunity to exhibit or perform any form of creativity.

For much more information, including details on submissions, see the Festival website.

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Eureka Productions is pleased to announce the publication of Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson. Graphic Classics is a series of books presenting great fiction adapted in comics and heavily-illustrated text for readers of all ages. Each volume contains the works of one classic author, illustrated by some of the best artists working today in the fields of comics, book illustration and fine arts.

The ninth volume in the Graphic Classics series includes comics adaptations of "The Bottle Imp", "The Suicide Club" and a unique two-part interpretation of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by Simon Gane and Michael Slack. Plus a fantasy by Fannie Van de Grift Stevenson, a special feature by Robert and Maxon Crumb and a collection of R.L. Stevenson's short fables and poems, with art by Lance Tooks, Esao Andrews, Roger Langridge, Shary Flenniken, Hunt Emerson, Johnny Ryan, Michael Manning and more.

Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson is available in bookstores, comics shops, or direct from the publisher at www.graphicclassics.com.

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"Untold Tales"
Adam Baumbold Gallery
74 E. 79th St.
New York


Adam Baumgold Gallery presents "Untold Tales," an exhibition of drawings by twenty-one artists from June 17 - August 6, 2004.

The artists included in this exhibition are René Magritte, Saul Steinberg, H.C. Westermann, George Grosz, Christina Ramberg, Scott Teplin, Marc Bell, Adam Dant, Mark Kostabi, Chris Ware, Robyn O'Neil, Glen Baxter, Marcel Dzama, Renée French, Anton van Dalen, Ellen Lanyon, Seth Michael Forman, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, András Böröcz, Michael Krueger, and Catya Plate.

The gallery hours in June are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00-5:30 P.M. In July and August the gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 11:00-5:30 P.M. For additional information, please contact Adam Baumgold at (212) 861-7338 or by e-mail.

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• Artist Marcel Herms (as Ubique Daemon) has a new 7" collaboration with Zyrtax (Johnny Z., also known as Dead Husbands) that's not a noise record. Zyrtax vs. Ubique Daemon should be available from Dead Mind Records.

• Tom Beland (True Story, Swear to God), Farel Dalrymple (Caper, Pop Gun War) and a mess of other cartoonists will be signing at Jim Hanley's Universe in NYC on Friday, June 18th from 5 to 7 PM.

• Jeff Plotkin of Happy Freak Show has a new website.

• Newsarama talks to Paul Hornschemeier about his Mother, Come Home.

• And over at the Pulse, Toby Craig talks about his Monster Engine! anthology.

• Scott Morse gets his turn at Plastic Man in the seventh issue of the current DC series. Here's more at the Pulse.

• Hey, Peter Bagge's got a new comic in Seattle's The Stranger. Part 1 of 3.

• Joe Zabel has started up The Webcomics Examiner, the debut issue of which features an interview with Eric Milliken, features on Scott McCloud and Ethan Persoff and more. [ thanks to EGON ]

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• Matt Dembicki's uploaded most of his comics (Attic Wit, Mr. Big) to his website in a cool format that roughly simulates page-turning. Check it out here.

• If you pick up the Summer issue of The Bark, "the modern dog culture magazine", you'll find a spot illo by Sara Varon (Sweaterweather). The previous issue contained a spotlight on artist Gary Baseman. Here's their site.

• Speaking of magazine illustration, you can also find a couple of pieces by Danny Hellman in the July FHM.

• Publishers Weekly has recently reviewed a batch of graphic novels including Adam Sacks' Salmon Doubts, Kyle Baker Cartoonist and others. The reviews are here but be warned that you've got to sign up to read the article.

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From Chris Staros:

For the first time ever, Top Shelf has teamed up with Nickelodeon to collect the comics from their groundbreaking Nickelodeon Magazine:

GRAMPA & JULIE: SHARK HUNTERS
by Jef Czekaj
Equal parts Tin Tin and The Simpsons, this full-color graphic novel – suitable for children and adults of all ages – collects Jef Czekaj's endearing and delightful tale from the pages of Nickelodeon Magazine (which reaches over 1 million kids and parents each month). Join Julie and her world-famous Grampa in endless zany adventures as they search the high seas for Stephen, the largest shark in the world. Along the way they meet rapping squirrels, nerdy pirates, and entrepreneurial penguins as they travel from the bottom of the ocean to the furthest reaches of outer space. Will they find Stephen? Will pirates make them walk the plank? And will Julie ever get her Grampa to stop goofing around? Dive in and find out. Published in association with Nickelodeon, and funded in part by a grant from the Xeric Foundation.
-- $14.95 (US), 128 pages, 10" x 7.5", Graphic Novel, Full-Color,
ISBN 1-891830-52-X, Shipping in August
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=12&title=394


And the underground superstar, Wild Man Fischer, is back in action in this way cool one-shot:

THE LEGEND OF WILD MAN FISCHER
by Dennis P. Eichhorn & J. R. Williams
A mind-bending package of madcap hi-jinx following the exploits of one of America's underground superstars, Wild Man Fischer. First serialized in Dennis P. Eichhorn's Real Stuff in the early '90s, this collection, written by Eichhorn and rendered by artist J.R. Williams, also contains an all-new episode illustrated by Holly K. Tuttle, as well as essays by Williams and outsider-music maven, Irwin Chusid, and over a dozen previously unpublished photos of Mr. Fischer.
-- $7.95 (US), 64 pages, 6 3/4" w x 8",
Graphic Novel, 1-891830-61-9, Shipping in August
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=12&title=417


AND: HOT OFF THE PRESSES
I don't think we've published three books cooler than these. Same Difference explores the not-so-average twenty-somethings' of Korean-American life; Dang! follows obnoxious teens, fashion conscious yuppies, and twin homeless orphans in a series debut that might just be the new "Eightball #1" for the modern generation; and All Flee! tells the exploits of a "Godzilla" training camp where young monsters learn to trample. How could you go wrong!? Click here to see the covers and details for all three titles:

Same Difference & Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim, $12.95
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=12&title=403

Dang! by Martin Cendreda, $3.50
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=12&title=402

All Flee! by Gavin Burrows and Simon Gane, $3.95
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=12&title=400

Top Shelf Productions

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• Check it out: John Hankiewicz's sketchbook courtesy of Onsmith

• Dirk Deppey has announced that the ¡Journalista! blog is definitely dead but that he'll be writing a regular column of industry commentary beginning in The Comics Journal #262. More here.

• David Lasky tackles student government journo style! 1 2 3

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From Robyn Chapman:

The rumors are true, there will be a True Porn Volume Two. Kelli Nelson and I are accepting submissions, and have set a deadline of January 1st, 2005. We are seeking solid stories, well drawn. And, of course, they must meet our two requirements: they must be autobiographical, and they must be about sex.

For those unfamiliar, True Porn is a comic anthology of autobiographical sex stories. This handsome, square-bound, 224-page volume contains the work of 42 contributors, including James Kochalka, James Sturm, Ariel Schrag, Ivan Brunetti, Jeffrey Brown and many others. It was published in the summer of 2003, and met with popular response in both comic book shops and on the convention circuit. It is currently in its second printing.

True Porn was edited and published by Robyn Chapman and Kelli Nelson, who, frankly, don't want to self-publish again. Interested publishers ought to give them an email. For more information, please visit www.trueporncomic.com.

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• Did you know Justin Madson has a full-color "Happy Town" story running at his site? Check out the latest installment or begin at the beginning.

• Here's a recent interview with Mark Bodé about The Lizard of Oz.

• "'Apparently, people are quite shocked by my painting,' he said. 'I don't know why they are not equally or more shocked by the pictures they are seeing on television of the actual torture taking place.'" That's artist Guy Colwell on the response to a painting of his that was exhibited at San Francisco's Capobianco Gallery (which has been closed down by the owner out of concern for her family's safety). Here's one article and another, just for starters. Oh, and the painting? Here. [ thanks to Lyn X/ESPA ]

• In case you haven't heard, James Kochalka Superstar has signed to Rykodisc and they'll be soon releasing a compilation album of earlier works called Our Most Beloved. Here's the full scoop.

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From the latest Comics Buyer's Guide newsletter:

Kate Worley, March 16, 1958-June 6, 2004

Kate Worley, the comic-book writer best known for her co-creation, with Reed Waller, of the Omaha, the Cat Dancer series, died of cancer on the evening of June 6. She had returned to radiation and chemo treatment on April 21. As reported in an earlier CBG Express, she and Waller were in the midst of wrapping up the as-yet incomplete adult-oriented saga of Omaha, because Les Humanoides plans to reprint the entire series in color.

Waller wrote online June 8, "In spite of the difficulty of our separation many years ago, Kate and I gradually tried to make peace, and were finally talking comfortably, and by the time the inquiries started to come about whether Omaha could be finished, we were both excited at the prospect of picking up our unfinished business and doing more of the work that made us what we are. At this moment I have two pages written by Kate only a few weeks ago, sitting on my drawing table in the midst of being inked.

"If the Omaha project contract does in fact go through in spite of Kate's passing, the writing work will be concluded by James Vance, with my assistance, from the copious notes that Kate has left in preparation for the story's completion." Vance is the creator of, among other projects, Kings in Disguise (from Kitchen Sink in 1988 and 1989). "Jim is not only Kate's spouse, he is probably the only other writer working in comics who has a voice anything like Kate's. It will not be easy for us to complete this highly personal work, after all the heartbreak and trouble associated with it over the years, and now this sadness. But it's something that needs to be done, now, and I hope that Les Humanoides will give us an opportunity to do so."

A decade ago for a CBG project, Worley cited her biggest creative influences as Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, and Frank King. In Pure Imagination's Tease! #1 (1994), she wrote that her father had died when she was 3 years old and she had been raised by a single, working mother. "My family didn't have a great deal of money," she wrote, "and I never had vast quantities of toys. But books were never skimped on." She said she had enjoyed reading when very young: not only Reader's Digest but also her brother's collection of Playboy. In her comics-creating career, she produced a variety of comics projects, including material for Roger Rabbit Adventures.

In the course of his August 1993 introduction to an Omaha, the Cat Dancer collection, Neil Gaiman wrote, "Omaha, the Cat Dancer is a soap opera, but it's drama, not melodrama; it is a funny animal comic, but the funny animals are real people; and it's neither erotica nor pornography - simply a story in which virtual cameras continue to roll while people take their clothes off and make love (just as they do in the world you and I inhabit)."

Worley is survived by her husband, James Vance, their two children (son Jacob and daughter Sarah), two sisters, a brother, nieces, and nephews. In its earlier report, CBG quoted Gaiman's website posting concerning the couple: "They're out at the edges of losing their home. They need help." Cards and other support may be sent to Vance at 323 Yorktown, Tulsa, OK 74104.

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From the most recent Fantagraphics newsletter:

The Arizona State University Art Museum is currently hosting an exhibition that includes material from David Greenberger's Duplex Planet comic book, including artwork by such artists as Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Dan Clowes, Jim Woodring and Chris Ware. Here’s the skinny:

When I Grow Up...
May 22 - September 11, 2004
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911

Taking brief glimpses at the current lives of seniors existing in a
variety of communities and living situations, “When I Grow Up…”
examines issues every human will deal with, in one way or another,
during his or her lifetime.


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• Onsmith writes in to say that he's working on an adaptation of Howard Garis' "Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" for the upcoming Horror Classics collection from Eureka Productions. You can expect to see Gabrielle Bell, Milton Knight, Mark Dancey and others in that volume as well.

• If you're going to be in or around Newcastle, New South Wales in June you might want to check out the group zine launch taking place on the 14th. More info here.

• Here's a Raina Telgemeier ("Smile", Take-Out) interview at the Pulse.

• Dan James (The Octopi and the Ocean) has announced that Top Shelf will be publishing his new book, Mosquito. Check out a preview here.

• Rich Watson has interviewed Chris Radtke and Mike Dawson (Gabagool!) for Comic World News.

• Shmorky's gone and animated Angry Youth Comix characters Blecky Yuckerella and Sinus O'Gynus.

• Book Expo Canada happens in Toronto on June 11-14 and the Graphic Novel Pavilion will be hopping with activity. Check out the full schedule here.

• Alan David Doane's "5 Questions" feature has made a comeback at Newsarama. Here's the latest with Seth.

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• Fantagraphics' Gary Groth is interviewed at Suicide Girls. [ thanks to Johnny Ryan ]

• The Ottawa Small Press Book Fair happens June 12th at the Jack Purcell Community Centre. More info. [ thanks to Lyn X ]

• Toby Craig reports in his blog on the Texas Comics Creators Forum held this past Thursday in Houston.

• New comic and zine reviews are up at the Almost Normal site.

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