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
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