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------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/bGIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> CBEM 526 concludes . . . +++++ Alternative Comics - Books for Summer 2005 Here is the list of the books and contact info for creators for books Alternative Comics has coming out for Summer (June- September) 2005. This only includes perfect bound books, not saddle stitched comics. This also does not include any of the Xeric books Alternative Comics is sub-distributing. June 2005: The Cute Manifesto By James Kochalka - james.kochalka@verizon.net 168 PAGES 8" x 8" B&W $19.95 ISBN: 1-891867-73-3 JULY 2005 James Kochalka's Dianetics. A powerful mixture of philosophy and comics that can literally change your life forever. In a dangerously uncertain world, Kochalka plots a theoretical path to happiness. Collecting his most intensely thoughtful work, Kochalka tackles all of the big issues: comics and art, birth and death, technology and joy, and everything in between. Included are The Horrible Truth about Comics, Reinventing Everything parts 1 and 2, Sunburn, The Cute Manifesto, and even Kochalka's famous "Craft is the Enemy" essays. July 2005: Humor Can Be Funny By Sam Henderson - mwhistle@aol.com For Mature Readers 128 pages 6" x 9" B&W $11.95 ISBN: 1-891867-41-5 July 2005 The cult classic is back in print! Sam Henderson's 1996 collection of his early mini-comics is available once again with this July 2005 release. See what his work liked like back when he was poor(er). Introduction by Mark Martin. "There are something like 50-60 strips here, with the longest being seven or eight pages. The brevity suits Henderson and his style of savage, biting, sarcastic humor. Henderson realizes the subject matter often doesnIt merit more than one brutal kick-in- the-ass punchline. Some of the best sections feature several one- panel comics on a single page or two-page spread. This isn't moronic humor; Henderson knows what heIs doing and some of the more satisfying bits of this book are those strips where he pulls apart and analyzes the humor involved or simply acknowledges a stripIs abrupt vapidity. Better critics than myself have been screaming about Henderson for years, including a number of recommendations right here. With this attractive, meaty tome, you no longer have an excuse to ignore them." ~Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Journal August 2005: Grickle 2nd edition By Graham Annable - grickle@hotmail.com 128 pgs 6" x 9" B&W $14.95 ISBN: 1-891867-01-6 AUGUST 2005 Nominated for the 2002 Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and the 2002 YALSA Best Graphic Novel for Young Adults, Grickle collects two dozen beautiful stories in which devilish comedy and eye- watering art enclose a rich, chocolatey center of sad poetry and bruised but intact innocence. "An animator by day, Annable apparently spends his nights drawing comedic, metaphorical stories about capriciousness, cruelty and absurdity. Annable draws characters in a drastically simplified, cartoony style with bug eyes and big noses, occasionally reducing arms and legs to sticks. But his animation experience reveals itself in the body language and movement of these black and white doodles. "Annable deserves attention and support as a strong, independent new talent." ~TIME Magazine. "Grickle is a must-read for any fan of visual poetry." ~Wizard Magazine. "The sort of Feiffer-esque everyman 'guy' character (no hair or clothes, square-bodied, no unseemly marks causing in the reader a failure to identify with the main character of each story) is clearly a stand-in for, well, you. Or not necessarily you, but some guy you knew in grade school, or your brother, your crazy cartoonist friend, your coworker. Someone close to you. Someone you invest in." ~The Comics Journal. "Grickle is simplistic in a Kurtzmanesque way (although Annable's style is far removed from Harvey Kurtzman's); there are no wasted lines, no unnecessary details to detract from the point of each story. Like Jules Feiffer in his prime, Annable has found the perfect blending of essential art and essentual words for each tale." ~Comic Shop News. "Graham Annable's Grickle is damn close to comics genius," ~INK19. "This book is amazing. Annable has a disarmingly simple style that he uses to tell stories of great emotional heft." ~Comic Book Galaxy. September 2005: True Porn volume 2 Edited by Kelli Nelson (Nelson@cheappaperart.com) and Robyn Chapman (robyn@un-pop.com) For Adults Only 240 PAGES 6-3/4" X 9-3/4" $19.95 ISBN: 1-891867-89-X SEPTEMBER 2005 True Porn is back! The critically acclaimed anthology of autobiographical sex stories has returned for a second volume of funny, heartbreaking, and crazy all-true comics! Featuring some today's brightest cartoonists, True Porn volume 2 is chock full of the real-life exploits of Sam Henderson (Magic Whistle), Rich Tommaso (PERVERSO!), Glenn Head (Snake Eyes), Hope Larson (Flight Volume Two), Kaz Strzepek (Reddingk Weekly), and 50 more great talents. From the highs to the lows of our most basic urge, True Porn volume 2 promises to be frank, honest, and always entertaining! Cover by Chester Brown (Louis Riel). 55 Contributors: Rina Ayuyang, David Bessent, Robin Bougie, Chester Brown, Robyn Chapman, Cameron Chesney, Jason Cheeseman-Meyer, Kevin Colden, Peter S. Conrad, Ken Dahl, Dave Davenport, Eleanor Davis, Mike Dawson, Johnny Destructo, Robin Enrico, Robin Fisher, Fredo, Diego Gabriele, Justin Hall, Glenn Head, Danny Hellman, Dan Hernandez, Sam Henderson, Damien Jay, Nick Jeffrey, Manning L. Krull, Miss Lasko-Gross, David Lasky, Hope Larson, Matt Leunig, Ellen Lindner, Sharon Lintz, Ed Malys, Ira Marcks, Lucas May, Liam McEneaney, Aaron Mew, Jon Minerich, Kenn Minter, Erika Moen, James Austin Murray, Brian Musikoff, Kelli Nelson, Ryan Pequin, Liz Prince, Jim Rugg, Ed Siemienkowicz, Jon Siruno, Katie Skelly, Kean Soo, Kazimir Strzepek, Rich Tommaso, and Dean Trippe. Jeff Mason - Publisher Alternative Comics Web: http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics +++++ Quicken Forbidden #13 "Know Where You Are" Written by Dave Roman (Nickelodeon Magazine, Bizarro World, GirlAMatic.com, Dexter's Lab) Illustrated by John Green (Disney Adventures, WJHC, Teen Boat) Back Cover by Kazu Kibuishi (Flight, Daisy Cutter, www.boltcity.com) Teenage sorceress, Jax Epoch is back in the latest issue of the Harvey Award-nominated series, Quicken Forbidden! Issue 13 finds Jax teaming up with interdimensional thieves, a familiar wizard, and a quirky fast-food restauranteur to finally destroy the ancient monster known as the Quicken. "Quicken Forbidden is a rollicking Harry Potter-esq fantasy, but it is it's sense of humor that makes it glow." -Craig Thompson, Blankets "Jax's stories are compulsively readable. They are like mice: you can't stop at just one. You know, if you eat mice". -Jane Espenson (writer/producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Gilmore Girls) So be sure to let your comic shop know you want them to order some copies of Quicken Forbidden #13 from Cryptic Press! And be sure to check out Jax's other adventures in the collected volumes from AiT/PlanetLar, available at Amazon.com or wherever books are sold. "We love you more than food!" -Dave Roman and John Green Press art available online: http://www.quickenforbidden.com/press/qf13/ Quicken Forbidden follows the misadventures of a kleptomaniac teenager, Jax Epoch, who broke into an abandoned laboratory in Manhattan where she ended up chasing a white rabbit through the Realmsend, a passageway into different dimensions. In this other world, Jax came across some magical armor and an ancient book that she "borrowed". Returning home she realized that everything that was magic in the other realm had begun leaking into her own, causing her reality to fall apart. Dragons now fly over the streets of Manhattan, marshmallows talk back, snow falls in July, and her boyfriend Adam, dumps her for things done by her evil twin. Thanks to the highly successful release of a collected trade paperback from AiT/PlanetLar, hundreds of new readers have discovered the magic and adventure of Quicken Forbidden and its unique heroine, Jax Epoch. For more info: crypticpress@aol.com www.quickenforbidden.com _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- - End of another Issue .. GIVE A KID A COMIC TODAY! If you write the word "monkey" a million times, do you start to think you're Shakespeare? Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. 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