Reports from the Small Press Expo have been piling up on the internets all week and you will find an exhaustive collection of links to them here. Two highlights would have to be the report from Heidi MacDonald for Publishers Weekly and the post from Matthew Hawkins on his site Fort90. These are highlights because: [...]

The long awaited new issue of Meathaus finally made its debut at the Small Press Expo this past weekend in Maryland! The copies rushed from the printer in time for the show sold out quickly. The rest of the print run will be making its way out to the public now via various distribution channels [...]

“Horror Hospital Unplugged” is one of my all-time favorite comic books.  It’s usually found in used bookstores somewhere between the Anarchy and Art and Graphic Novels and Queer Studies sections, also usually at half price, dog-eared and water damaged.  Now it’s available used on Amazon for 83 cents to two dollars.  I can’t praise this book enough.  Pick [...]

Kramers Ergot explodes forth again with another frothing wave of salty tales and beauty full of deep-sea creatures with tiny bulbs and razor teeth! Editor and grand-master Sammy Harkham has curated another winning combination of comic wizardry and science– they aren’t supposed to mix, but like some strange alchemy he makes gold happen.
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 A while ago I ordered all of the Guy Billout books I could find.  Billout is a well-known illustrator (his illustrations for The Atlantic Monthly were collected in an oversized, gorgeous book titled “Something’s Not Quite Right”) and he also did a series of picture books that showcased his quirky, subtle visual humor. 
“Bus 24″ is [...]

Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation promises to be the definitive book on the subject of the time between the 1940’s and the 1960’s when cartoonists digested modern art movements and produced some of the most strikingly new work in animation history. A lot of the extreme graphic experiments that went on during [...]