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BOOK OF DAZE by E.A. Bethea

It’s painfully rare to come across work as deeply personal, unabashedly human, and spiritedly open to life in all its many forms as that of E.A. Bethea. Her comics approach experience with curiosity,...

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NO EXIT by Annie Mok

This nice anthology of otherwise uncollected short works from Annie Mok ranges from her days in college, when she identified as a boy, through 2016. Mok’s work is always beautiful and powerfully...

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BE YOUR OWN BACKING BAND by Liz Prince

The Crown Princess of Punk Rock Comix, Liz Prince, collects here a bunch of her music related comics done for Razorcake Magazine, and the If You Make It website. Wholly unpretentious and fun, Be Your...

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KING-CAT COMICS #78 by John Porcellino

All new issue features lots of funny animal stories like “A Story About Ninny,” “Lady Tuff ‘n’ Tender,” and “Nighttime Encounter with the Void”; tons of Nature Notes featuring Monarch Butterfly...

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BLAMMO #10 by Noah Van Sciver

This jumbo issue features 48 pages of the best comics going. Includes two funny, poignant Pre-Social Media Days strips, a look at American Writer/Humorist Artemus Ward, a beautiful long story about the...

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SOMEONE PLEASE HAVE SEX WITH ME by Gina Wynbrandt

So glad to finally have this great book in stock! Gina’s brilliant, funny comics about sexual obsession are some of the best of our time. Someone Please Have Sex With Me collects a bunch of her zines...

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LATE ERA CLASH #27 by Mike Taylor

In this issue of Mike Taylor’s classic zine, he brings us on a “studio tour” of his imagination, his creative processes, his tools, his hands, questioning all the way, in his usual thoughtful manner....

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A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF AN ANIME CONVENTION by M.S. Harkness

This amazing story is an ol’-fashioned, honest-to-goodness throwback to the autobiographical comix daze of Dennis Eichhorn and Peter Bagge. Here we meet our humble narrator, freshly graduated from art...

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TINDERELLA by M.S. Harkness

“This is the debut graphic novel from M.S. Harkness, who has been self publishing work in Minnesota for a number of years now. Tinderella is an autobiographical comic about online dating, living poor...

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ANGLOID by Alex Graham (Kilgore Books edition)

A new edition of Alex Graham’s modern classic. (The original self-published edition is still available here.) This paperback collects the complete Angloid storyline begun in Graham’s Cosmic Be-Ing. The...

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(MORE) DIARY COMICS (FROM A RELATIVE NOBODY) by November Garcia

November’s charming, self-deprecating, funny comics in diary form. 32 digest pages, two color covers, black and white interiors (Self-published)

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ROOKIE MOVES by November Garcia

November Garcia documents her move from nerdy comics fan to nerdy comics artist in this nice little zine, detailing her cringy and joyful experiences at comic conventions across the world. Cameos by...

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STRANGE GROWTHS #16 1/2 by Jenny Zervakis

This shorter in-between issue features a post-divorce trip to Myrtle Beach with the girls, and several beautiful standalone drawings. Lovely as always. 16 digest pages, black and white throughout....

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CHLORINE GARDENS by Keiler Roberts

A new Keiler Roberts book is always a cause for celebration. One of my Top Five® Contemporary Cartoonists, her work is funny and wry, with a subtle, melancholy depth to it. “Dealing with pregnancy,...

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CECIL & JORDAN IN NEW YORK by Gabrielle Bell

Gabrielle Bell’s breakthrough work is now back in print, in a new paperback edition from Uncivilized! “Gabrielle Bell’s acclaimed collection explores a spectrum of human experience that ranges from the...

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CONSTANT COMPANION by Noah Van Sciver

A lovely collection of sketchbook work from the amazing NVS… comics, sketches, drawings, doodles, etc, spanning 2013-2017. Highly recommended! “Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van Sciver grants us exclusive...

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ONE DIRTY TREE by Noah Van Sciver

“Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as his brothers rechristened it One Dirty Tree. This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his first home and the site of formative...

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THE LODGER by Karl Stevens

“After losing his girlfriend and hip Boston apartment, Karl Stevens moves into a spare room in his painting professor’s home, where his bohemian adventures in sex and boozing converge with the rituals...

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THE WINNER by Karl Stevens

“Karl Stevens uses the graphic novel to dissect the line between the worlds of high and low art. While working as a museum guard he contemplates the plight of his aesthetic choices, and how they have...

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A BUBBLE by Geneviève Castrée

This posthumous release was Geneviève’s last work before her tragic passing. It’s a beautiful, powerful, open letter to her daughter, drawn in her usual impeccable, intricate style. The lettering and...

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