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• Soft Skull Press has their Fall 2004 catalog available. Check out the PDF here.

• Australian David Blumenstein (Nakedfella Comics) tells me that his animated film Herman, the Legal Labrador is having its first festival screening at the Fucking Fabulous Film Festival in Seattle, WA, and will be playing during the cartoonist-heavy 9:00 PM slot on Thursday, August 5th, alongside other shorts by Tony Millionaire, Ivan Brunetti, Jim Woodring, Mark Newgarden, Kaz and others. More info.

• Now in stores from Alternative Comics: Damon Hurd and Chris Steininger's The White Elephant, Rebecca Dart's RabbitHead, Leslie Stein's Yeah, It Is! and Rosetta Vol. 2.

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Broken Pencil proudly invites you to be part of Hotel Canzine 2004!!

Canada's Biggest Zine and Independent Arts Fair

When?
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Where?
@ The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto Canada)
(If you are coming from out of town, be sure to check out http://www.gladstonehotel.com for rates and availabity.)

Free Admission! All Welcome!

Events at Canzine 2004 include:

2 Floors with 100's of tables selling zines, art and books, including our all new, adults only, "Room of Sin." (Want to be included in our Room of Sin? Got ideas to make this room sizzle? E-mail us.)

The return of the Open Stage
Plus!
Readings from the underground's best writers!
Indie films and videos!

Hotel room installations by Canada's best, upcoming artists and more!
(Got an idea for a room? E-mail our room coordinator Marc Ngui for more info)

Art Galleries: Get involved with the Get A Room project! Sponsor a room and help ensure that the project remains affordable and accessible to all talents. (E-mail to find out more)

Zinesters/Publishers: to reserve a table you must register! Tables run out every year! Tables cost $10 and you can reserve yours by going online at www.brokenpencil.com and clicking on the Canzine 2004 link (bottom right corner of the screen).

We did everything we could to not have to raise the price of registration this year but in the end we realized we just couldn't put on the event without doing so. To take the edge off we're including a one year subscription to Broken Pencil.

Questions? Want more info? Want to be a sponsor? E-mail us.

We look forward to seeing you at Canzine 2004!

Sincerely,

The Folks at Broken Pencil Magazine

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• Have you played Dogfoot yet?

• Enrico Casarosa (The Adventures of Mia) is interviewed at Newsarama.

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The CBLDF is winning the fights that matter to your free speech. We need your support now to keep up this good and important work.

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of free speech victories in battles the Fund's been fighting:

On June 29, the Supreme Court upheld the ban on COPA, effectively quashing a law that would chill protected speech on the Internet and make the government more intrusive in how adults can read and see the material they choose to view. The Fund was there, fighting COPA from the start.

Last week, Washington state's violent video game law was struck down. The law would have made it illegal to sell or rent games depicting violence against uniformed law enforcement officers. The court recognized video games as protected speech and declared that violence is neither legally obscene nor harmful to minors. The VSDA
led the fight, which the Fund and our free speech allies vigorously supported.

In the last season, we've also successfully held off the enforcement of unconstitutional display laws in Arkansas and Michigan that would effect how every retailer in those states does business. We are moving ahead towards killing those laws entirely.

This is the kind of advocacy work that comics needs in order to be legally safe and creatively vibrant in these turbulent times. To keep doing this work, the CBLDF urgently needs your continued support. We need to you to join, either online at www.cbldf.org, or at this week's Comic-Con International: San Diego. At the Con there will be plenty of opportunities to support, from Saturday night's gala auction, to signings at our booth (4504/4506), to cool new t-shirts and premiums, including the return of Frank Miller's Band-Aid tee. However you choose to support the Fund, it will go a long way to helping us protect comics' free speech rights.

There are new battles on the horizon, including John Ashcroft's potentially unconstitutional recordkeeping requirements for adult material as part of the Protect Act, and potential increases to the DoJ's obscenity unit. We're keeping close watch on these and other threats, but we can't fight them -- or even keep proper watch on them -- unless we have the money we need to do so.

Support the CBLDF this week. Whether it's through membership, premiums, or any other donation, your dollars help us fight the important battles. Now is the time to support the fight.

Charles Brownstein,
Executive Director

cbldf.org

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ComiXpress is a new service for independent comix artists that will print books with no minimum orders, act as their online store, then fulfill the order so that all the artist needs to worry about is creating their comix and being notified of their sales.

From low-quantity, high-quality printing to distribution and sales through the online store, ComiXpress is designed to be the answer to costly, high-quantity print runs and the hassles of distribution and warehousing.

ComiXpress allows creators the opportunity to print their comics in quantities as low as one single issue for incredibly low prices (You can literally get the ball rolling for just over $10!).

www.comiXpress.com

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• The 14th issue of reviewzine Xerography Debt is out. A copy will cost you three bucks from Davida Gypsy Breier / PO Box 963 / Havre de Grace, MD / 21078 USA or you can check it out online here.

• Here's Guy Leshinski's latest zine reviews (comics this time) for eye. Oh, and here's his review of McSweeney's #13 at The Cultural Gutter.

• A taste of Johnny Ryan's sketchbook at The Stranger (Seattle).

• Here's a preview at the Pulse for the upcoming Styx Taxi: A Little Twilight Music.

• Did you know that Tom Hart's complete Hutch Owen's Working Hard is online for your reading enjoyment? Well, it is. [ thanks to BugPowder ]

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Global Hobo, handmade comics distributor, will attend Comic-Con International 2004, sharing a booth with Sparkplug Comic Books, Alternative Comics, and I Will Destroy You.

Global Hobo will display a wealth of handmade comics, including the new Monster Boxes by Lark Pien and Thien Pham, Seafood by Josh Frankel, Midnight Creep by Fredo, a new mini by Graham Annable, and a Slow Wave mini by Jesse Reklaw.

Alternative Comics will debut the new Rosetta Volume 2, with work by Michael Kupperman, Lat, Craig Thompson, and others. I Will Destroy You will debut two new silkscreened posters designed by Tom Neely. We also present 8 new T-shirt designs by: Andrice Arp, Kathleen Lolley, Tom Neely, Lark Pien, Joe Sayers, and Gene Yang. Many of the artists will be scheduled to sign books, show original art, preview their new projects, and do small sketches.

Find us at Comic-Con International, July 22-25, in booth 1620, right next to Last Gasp.

Full list of artists in attendance: Trevor Alixopulos, Graham Annable, Andrice Arp, Ben Catmull, Josh Frankel, Dean Haspiel, Eric Haven, Levon Jihanian, Jeff LeVine, Kathleen Lolley, Tom Neely, Thien Pham, Joan Reilly, and Jesse Reklaw.

Sparkplug Comic Books
Alternative Comics
I Will Destroy You
Global Hobo

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• Look for an interview with Peter Bagge to be included in TwoMorrows' Write Now #9, out in November.

• A piece on James Kochalka was recently featured in the Boston Globe.

• USS Catastrophe is holding what's been referred to as the "Comic Art Bake Sale for Kerry '04". You can order a drawing from any participating cartoonist and all proceeds go to John Kerry's campaign fund. The roster currently consists of David Lasky, Donna Barr and Warren Craghead. More info.

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From Alycia Sellie:

I am going to be organizing a Zine Fest that will occur in collaboration with the Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison, Wisconsin October 6-10, 2004.

I am still looking for participants for tables and other projects. For more info, go to:
www.madisonzinefest.org

Tables will be available at the Zine Fest and you can register through the website. If you would like to be involved, have questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact me and check the website for regular updates and improved design.

Thanks!
Alycia


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• This may be old news but any Dylan Horrocks fans who haven't seen the comics on his site may want to do so for obscure stuff like this one, drawn for the Hepatitis-C Resource Centre in Christchurch. [ thanks to ComicsLifestyle ]

• Here's a comic by Tim Danko you should definitely check out from the Pure Evil anthology. I recommend zooming in for detail and footnotes. Remarkable. [ Thanks again to ComicsLifestyle ]

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Cartoonist Jen Sorensen, recently honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for the second consecutive year for her self-syndicated ‘Slowpoke’ comic strip, has announced that Alternative Comics will release her latest strip collection Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers in September 2004. Jen Sorensen’s ‘Slowpoke’, which runs in numerous alternative newspapers around the country, won second place for “Best Cartoon” at the 9th annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards held June 25 at the AAN Convention in San Antonio.

Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers is Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist Jen Sorensen’s second collection of her brilliant weekly cartoon 'Slowpoke'. Through her characters Little Gus, Mr. Perkins, and the terminally horny Drooly Julie, Sorensen slams the Bush regime, vapid trends, and corporate gluttony with her trademark brand of absurdist humor.

The cartoonist said of her new collection, “America has always been a little bit bonkers, but in the past few years, we’ve entered new, uncharted realms of bonkerdom. If Americans would take a moment to think outside the flag-covered box and see themselves as the rest of the world now does, they’d be horrified.”

The cartoons in this timely comic treasury lampoon the Bush years, but they also take on the chaos of our cornball culture. From This Week in Geek Chic to the strange-but-true executive retreat where bosses learn to treat their employees like horses, this book is a bulging cornucopia of perversion and subversion, and big laffs to boot.

Slowpoke
Alternative Comics

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• Scott Saavedra has transformed his Comic Book Heaven website into a blog. Mmmm, comic booky goodness!

• Onsmith's got a new 2-color "Spit-Toons" screenprint for sale at his site. Only five bucks, friends!

• Minneapolis Zine Fest, July 23-25. More info.

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Dear Comics Fans:

I’m Jeff Mason making a direct appeal to you, our faithful readers, in a time of serious financial difficulty. If you could find a way to buy some of our books listed below, you would greatly help in our time of financial crisis. Please check off the books you want below and then buy these books from your favorite retailer. You can also use the checklist in the back of your copy of Alternative Comics #2 that was given out by your local comic book store on Free Comic Book Day. If your retailer does not stock our comics and books, they can use this form below as a way to order our in-stock titles form any of our distributors.

Alternative Comics is suffering some very dire cash flow problems and I am turning to you for help. In the spring of 2002 our book trade distributor, LPC, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy owing Alternative Comics a lot of money. I had hoped that I could weather the storm by taking money from my savings and by borrowing on credit until receiving the agreed-upon 42% of what LPC owed us. Now over two years later, LPC is still in bankruptcy proceedings and I am completely out of savings and credit.

In the past (prior to LPC) I had ample working capital – I had great credit terms with my various printers. Now (post LPC) I have absolutely no working capital and must pay up front to print every book.

For each publication, I now wait for all of the retailer advance orders to come in to Diamond, then I contract Diamond to assign the payment they'd pay to me to my printer to print the book. This contractual agreement costs money and cuts into our razor thin margin.

Lack of cash on hand has also caused me to have to shrink print runs on some books. This increases the cost per unit of each book, and speeds the looming reprint costs.

I've been increasing my publishing schedule over the last two years, and in hindsight, I expanded too quickly. Alternative Comics is moving forward with a much more reasonable, much more foresighted publishing schedule, with some really amazing projects in the works!

Alternative Comics’ cash flow problems have been the only reason for not yet reprinting Bipolar #1 and Humor Can Be Funny as well as having been the only reason a number of books have been arriving late or re-solicited.

I am asking you to please buy Alternative Comics books from your local retailers. In my fanciful imagination, the best result would be for retailers to quickly sell out of all Alternative Comics books in inventory to customers and hurriedly place nice reorders with distributors.

Alternative Comics has no staff other than myself, so I am unable to handle orders directly. I ask that readers buy from your local comic book retailers, and retailers to buy from your favorite distributors.

The single most important variable for our publishing efforts is the number of comics or books advance ordered by retailers. Retailers decide their advance orders of books based on what you, the reader, let them know you want to buy. Currently, we have the following books scheduled for release in September 2004. These books are in all of the distributors’ catalogs right now. If you want to get copies of these books, please let your local comic book retailer know!

• JUL04 2534, A Few Perfect Hours and Other Stories by Josh Neufeld (Xeric Winner), $12.95
• JUL04 2535, Escalator by Brandon Graham, $12.95
• JUL04 2537, Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers by Jen Sorensen, $12.95
• JUL04 2538, Turtle, turtle by Jed Alexander, $11.95
• JUL04 2539, Waterwise by Joel Orff (Featured Item), $14.95

If you can find it in your hearts to help Alternative Comics, I will be eternally grateful.

Thank you,

Jeff Mason
Publisher – Alternative Comics

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As some of you probably know, Poopsheet will soon be revamped and moved to a new domain. What you probably don't know, though, is that I'm adding a mini-comics shop to the site.

Well, I've secured the domain and the new design is in the works but I decided I couldn't wait any longer to get the shop going. So I've set up a low-frills, temporary page to get things started. When the shop officially launches at the new site it'll include a shopping cart set-up and other features.

In the meantime, though, I hope you'll check out the interim shop site. Currently in stock are books by Josh Simmons, Jeff LeVine, Mike Kazaleh, Mark Campos, Jim Siergey, Hans Nissen and others – with much more to come.

You may be interested to know, also, that shipping is free. I'm hoping to keep it that way indefinitely but we'll see how it goes.

Please don't hesitate to e-mail me with comments, suggestions, requests or complaints.

Thanks for your support!
--Ricko

Poopsheet Shop


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• Tomer Hanuka (Bipolar) has been profiled in The Jewish Week.

• Alan David Doane asks 5 Questions of Rob Vollmar (The Castaways) at Newsarama.

• Also at Newsarama: If you haven't heard, The Supreme Court has upheld an Appellate Court’s decision to ban the COPA (Child Online Protection Act). The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's Charles Brownstein talks about the importance of this decision and why the Fund was involved in fighting it.

• Well, you can't really read it but you can still admire the look of Greg Clarke's comic in this week's Stranger (Seattle).

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LA ZINE FIESTA 2004

Arts in Action
1919 7th Street, 4th Floor, Los Angeles
Saturday, July 10 (11 to 5pm)

Join in the festivities, support the indenpendent press, comic artists and do-it-yourself crafters in this one day event. Trade and sell your creations, whether they be zines, comics, books, handmade crafts, etc. Sit in on a DIY workshop or just stop by and browse. It's free to the public. Exhibitor space is still available!

The website will hopefully answer any further questions you may have. If not, you can always e-mail Jay Koivu directly.

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From Robert Young

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE

Friends, Enemies, Countrymen, and even Those from Lands with Sane Political Leadership,

The Comics Interpreter welcomes your bitter repudiations and denunciations of the worst President in American history. Strips, panels, brutal caricatures...draw one, draw all. And of course you need not limit your ire to Gee Dubya alone; feel free to take on any or all of his Axis of Evil as well (Condi, Rummy, Cheney, Asshcroft, Fox News, etc.). Or issues: You know, the rape of the environment, the chill on free speech, the brutalization of prisoners (and Janet Jackson!), the homophobia, even the little skirmish in MeSSopotamia ("Mission Accomplished!"), etc.

Of course anyone who thinks that Bush is doing a swell job, that he in fact is the second coming of Abe Lincoln, is encouraged to submit also.

The best stuff, and there’s room for quite a bit, will run in the next ish of TCI (and perhaps some on the website as well). The issue is scheduled to come out in October, just prior to the November elections. Previously published material will be considered.

Deadline: August 20

Interested parties e-mail for submission guidelines. Thank you.

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• In August SLG creators Black Olive (Outlook: Grim) and Christopher (The Ghouly Boys) begin their month-long Beastly Book Tour at Comickaze in San Diego. Here's the complete schedule.

• Michelle Tea (Valencia, Sister Spit), and Laurenn McCubbin (XXX Live Nude Girls!) read from their new graphic novel, Rent Girl, in Seattle at Velocity MainSpace, 8 p.m. $8. More info: (206) 369-2471 or e-mail. [ thanks to Hugo House ]

• Here's Pat Lewis' MoCCA report. While you're at the site, check out some comics!

• For a peek at what's happening comics-wise in Australia and Cambodia (and beyond) check out the ComicsLifestyle blog.

• Paper Rodeo 18 will be here soon...



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HOT OFF THE PRESS
• Same Difference & Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim, $12.95
• Less Than Heroes by David Yurkovich, $14.95
• 2 Sisters by Matt Kindt, $19.95
• World War 3 Illustrated #35: Life During Wartime, $5.00
• Boy Trouble: 10th Anniversary Issue (AN), $8.95
• The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore & José Villarrubia, $24.95
• Dang! by Martin Cendreda, $3.50
• All Flee by Simon Gane and Gavin Burrows, $3.95


SHIPPING TO STORES ON JULY 21
(and simultaneously debuting at the San Diego Comic-Con)
• Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson
• American Elf by James Kochalka
• Conversation #1 by Craig Thompson & James Kochalka
• Blankets Soundtrack by Craig Thompson & Tracker


SHIPPING IN AUGUST
• Grampa & Julie: Shark Hunters by Jef Czekaj


SHIPPING IN SEPTEMBER -- IN PREVIEWS NOW

Owly
by Andy Runton
Owly is a kind, yet lonely, little owl who's always on the search for new friends and adventure. The first graphic novel in the series contains two enchanting novellas, "The Way Home" & "The Bittersweet Summer," wherein Owly discovers the meaning of friendship, and that saying goodbye doesn't always mean forever. Relying on a mixture of symbols, icons, and expressions to tell his silent stories, Runton's clean, animated, and heartwarming style makes it a perfect read for anyone who's a fan of Jeff Smith's Bone, Mike Kunkel's Herobear and the Kid, or Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants. Don't miss the next big thing in comics! This beautifully rendered and touching story will be the first actual graphic novel series from Top Shelf.
-- $10.00 (US), 120 pages, Graphic Novel, ISBN 1-891830-62-7


Dead Herring Comics
by Actus
Actus independent Comics presents an exciting and beautiful collection of graphic short stories by some of today's most outstanding international cartoonists. This fabulous oversized album includes Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers"; a modern fairytale by the French cartoonist Blanquet; an interview with the Japanese alternative Manga artist, Suehiro Maruo; a new domestic drama by Rutu Modan, short stories by Etgar Keret, a silent story by Ulf K., as well as new stories by all the Actus artists. Dead Herring Comics also contains five detachable mini-posters by the Actus artists.
-- $24.95 (US), 120 pages (56 in full-color), 9 1/4" x 12 1/4", Perfect-Bound Anthology, ISBN 965-90221-5-8


TOP SHELF SIGNS RICH KOSLOWSKI'S "THE KING"
From the award-winning creator of Three Fingers, comes an all-new pop-culture adventure/mystery. The King is an offbeat tale of one very enigmatic Elvis impersonator that's taking the Vegas strip, and the world, by storm. Shrouded in mystery with the shining gold helmet that covers his face, his performances are mesmerizing, and many fans are starting to believe that he really is Elvis. Through a series of thought-provoking interviews and investigative reporting, a journalist makes it his personal mission to find out who The King really is. And along the way he discovers a lot more than he bargained for. ... Slated for release, Summer 2005.
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=2&title=433


BRETT WARNOCK SPEAKS AT THE WILLAMETTE WRITER'S CONFERENCE
On August 6th, Brett Warnock will appear on a panel and do portfolio reviews at the Willamette Writer's Conference in Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit the event website, e-mail Bill Johnson or call 503-452-1592.


ROB VENDITTI GOES FULL TIME
Top Shelf would like to welcome aboard our first ever, full-time employee, Rob Venditti. Rob began working part-time for Top Shelf on April 3rd, 2002, during the "twelve-hour miracle," when he helped pack the thousand orders that came in that day. But as of July 1st, he's our first permanent staffer.

Also an aspiring comics writer, Rob gave his script for The Surrogates to us and asked our advice on marketing it to more mainstream publishers. But after reading it, we were so impressed that we did one better: having long been on the lookout for a mainstream project worthy of bearing the Top Shelf logo, we decided to keep The Surrogates for ourselves. Look for The Surrogates in the Spring of 2005, and click here to read all about it:
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=2&title=416

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www.topshelfcomix.com

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From Fantagraphics:

The most popular alternative comic in the world is back, and it's bigger and better than ever! Presenting Eightball #23 by Daniel G. Clowes. This is the first new issue of Eightball in over two years, and it's another self-contained, full-color, oversized masterpiece like the award-winning previous issue! Featuring the first appearance of... The Death-Ray! The best-selling author of Ghost World tells the story, set mostly in the 1970s, of a teenager granted mysterious powers and the irrevocable changes in his life that accompany them.

Eightball #23 hits stands July 14, just as Clowes and Ghost World film director Terry Zwigoff will begin working on their second feature film collaboration. Mr. Mudd, the production company behind 2001's Ghost World, reteams director Terry Zwigoff and cartoonist/screenwriter Dan Clowes for the eagerly anticipated Art School Confidential. Set to lense in Los Angeles on July 12, the film also marks the continuing partnership between Mr. Mudd and United Artists, who released Ghost World to critical acclaim. Terry Zwigoff and Dan Clowes were nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 for their screen adaptation of Ghost World based on Clowes' graphic novel of the same name, published by Fantagraphics Books. Terry Zwigoff most recently helmed the box office hit Bad Santa starring Billy Bob Thornton.

Mudd partners Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russ Smith are producing from the Clowes penned script. Malkovich rounds out the art school cast of characters including Anjelica Huston, and Jim Broadbent. The film boasts ingenues Max Minghella and Sophia Myles.

Based on a comic story in Dan Clowes' Eightball #7 (and reprinted in the collection Twentieth Century Eightball, "Art School Confidential" tracks an art student (Minghella) who dreams of becoming a famous artist. Arriving as a freshman at a prestigious east coast art school, he quickly discovers that his affected style and arrogance don't get him very far. When he sees that a clueless jock is attracting the glory rightfully due him, he hatches an all-or-nothing plan to hit it big in the art world.

www.fantagraphics.com

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• The print magazine The Comics Interpreter is now seeking submissions for the next issue (TCI #3), and beyond. Please check out the Submissions page for more info, or e-mail editor Robert Young with any questions.

• If you read FHM, god help you, then you already know that the August issue features illustrations by Mark Zingarelli and Danny Hellman.

• Andy Konky Kru's got a couple of new anthologies out featuring Ulf K., Maaike Hartjes, Pat Moriarity, Gary Northfield and others. These may only be available in the UK for all I know but you can e-mail Andy and ask.

• Wanna know where you can read and/or buy zines in the US? Here's a pretty good list at the Zine World site.

• Fans of Attaboy may be pleased to know that he's doing his first children's book for Baby Tattoo Books. Expect it in February 2005.

• From this week's East Bay Express: "The Express received several honors at last week's annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. "2003 Illustrated," our comic-based Year in Review issue, which was conceived by Managing Editor Mike Mechanic and art-directed by freelance Berkeley cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, won a first place award in the "format-buster" category. Other writers and artists who contributed to the feature included Wahab Algarmi, Alixopulos, Stephen Buel, Josh Frankel, Fredo, Malcolm Gay, Hellen Jo, David Lasky, Thien Pham, Lark Pien, and Chris Thompson. Jesse also took first-place honors in the cartoon category for his syndicated strip 'Slow Wave'." [ thanks to Joe Sayers ]

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• Ellen Forney gets patriotic in the new LA Weekly.

• And if you don't mind the color registration being way off, here's the final installment in Peter Bagge's new comic for The Stranger (Seattle).

• Heidi MacDonald snapped a few pics at MoCCA for the Pulse.

• Adrian Tomine is profiled this week in New York Newsday. [ thanks to Sean McGurr at Panel ]

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