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Ignatz Award Nomination (Best Comic Book) From a multiple-award-winning cartoonist, Noah Van Sciver comes the brand new three-part autobiographical comic series, Maple Terrace. Hilarious and forlorn stories from the author’s childhood, surrounded by 90s comics, cartoons, toys, deprivation, and painful nostalgia. Noah Van Sciver is a multiple award-winning cartoonist who first came to comic…

The TERRAFORMERS are coming! Take an archaeo-mythological detour through antediluvian Sumer in Utnapishtim’s ARK as we search for the ultimate SOURCE of human nature in DEEP TIME. Also, visiting Doctor Zizmor’s office becomes a PSYCHE-ANALYSIS of the COMICS-CONSCIOUSNESS continuum. Can comics think? Including Aesthetic Education, CARTOON HERMENEUTICS, and barbarians. ETERNAL ideas in a convenient…

In the last issue, the world ended… but did it really? The post-apocalyptic struggle looks a lot like our present-day struggles. Maybe history doesn’t end? Revealed: the violent final moments of Igloo City, and the dark secrets of Project Cthulhu. Also, who or what is Eve? With guest appearances by Gaia and Nanook the philosopher. Includes the notorious “Comics As Technology of Consciousness”…

Greek myth has inspired stories and art for millennia. And yet some stories and characters remain unfamiliar. First There Was Chaos explores the formless, primordial, and extraordinary forces that preceded the Olympian gods. These tales of Creation illustrate the creative process, giving cosmic form to the universal struggles of all creators.  Framing the narrative is the story of a poet…

Three short stories of Yuletides Past, based on memories from 1973, 1980, and 1989… Christmas Stories features the comics “From a Buick ’66,” “Mysterious Gift,” and the lysergic “Ho, Ho, Ho.” 12 page black and white digest Spit and a Half, 2020

Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father’s desk. The play tells the story of Josh’s mother’s early death (age 35) and his father’s struggle with single parenthood. When he attempts to adapt the play into comics, it triggers a series of personal crises. Bayer’s limitations and futile ambitions are brought into sharp relief as he grapples with an estranged,…

Noah’s first self-published Blammo in ages, #10.5 features crazed looks at the world of comics and cartooning in such riots as the EC-esque The Floating Head, Who is John Porcellino?, My Great Graphic Novel, Hefty Duck in “Art Schmart, Gimme Money,” On the Road with John P., and sordid, sad looks at Famous Cartoonists™ Stan Drake and Harry Hershfield; plus short autobiographical works all replete…

Gabrielle concludes that she is a failure in life, so she might as well do what she likes for the rest of it. She spends hours at cafes covertly drawing and eavesdropping on her fellow layabouts and shirkers every day. Occasionally she gets caught, and sometimes, she makes friends. Gabrielle Bell is comics’ most infamous diarist and the creator of The Voyeurs and Everything is Flammable. 64 page…

David’s obsession with an old girlfriend risks his current relationship with Dot, and he yearns to discover the truth about his absent father. 36 page oversize comic with color covers Fantagraphics Books, 1998