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Gay Genius

By Annie Murphy

144pp., 9.5x7, perfect bound, full color

From the publisher: Gay Genius is a comics anthology illuminating the past, present and future of queer history makers. It is a labor of love, a celebration of possibility, an offering to the ancestors. Conceived and edited by Annie Murphy, Gay Genius is a showcase of contemporary radical queer visionaries-to-watch-out-for: KUBB E. BEAR, HARMONY BIANCA, SARAH SASS BISCARRA-DILLEY, PAM CAMERON-SNYDER, JACKIE DAVIS, MAT DEFILER, SAMANTHA JANE DORSETT, EDIE FAKE, SAILOR HOLLADAY, ELISHA LIM, ANNIE MURPHY, LEROI NEWBOLD, LEE RELVAS, ADEE ROBERSON, MATT RUNKLE, ELLERY RUSSIAN, CLIO REESE SADY, SILKY SHOEMAKER.
Stories range from 1 to 22 pages; subjects range from biographical to self-referential to speculative to magical and mystical.

$20.00

Gazeta: Comics from Bangkok to Belgrade

131 pp., 9x6.5, perfect bound

Gazeta wants to remind you that comics are happening everywhere, from Lisbon ateliers to Belgrade Communist Bloc flats. Beautiful abstract images and words reach out across oceans to relate and connect. Comics form a truly universal language, and in the collection 12 contemporary artists convey human suffering, dreams, relationships, and hopes with the simple brush and pencil.

$15.00

Jeff Job Hunter

By Jack Teagle

From the publisher: Jeff thinks he is on his way to the Job Centre to pick up his monthly benefit payment when in fact he is about to embark on a quest of Ulyssean proportions. As Jeff slashes and punches his way through the red tape and bureaucracy of the Job Centre's dungeon of terror, he approaches the terrifying Minotaur whom he must defeat to pick up his next meal ticket. Little does he know that the object of his epic quest is just a bad tempered HR manager with a paper-load the size of a Kraken and a mood to match it.

Can he succeed in an otherwise hopeless situation? Will he retrieve the skull of the half man half beast from the dungeon of terror and get his beloved JSA cheque? There’s only one way to find out…

$13.50

The Naked Boy Part 1

By Daniel Duford

116 pp., 12x8.5, perfect bound, paperback

From the publisher: The Naked Boy is a birth of the nation story. The Naked Boy is spit out of the mouth of a whale. The Naked Boy is given the mission to follow the railroad west to kill the Great Bear. There are two narrative voices throughout the story. The first is the omniscient narrator, the poet. This voice uses the device of epic, heroic poetry. The second is Preacher Smith, a syndicated talk radio preacher. Preacher Smith is never seen, he broadcasts locally from everywhere the Naked Boy finds himself. Preacher Smith is the main agitator against the Naked Boy.

$15.00

The Naked Boy Part 2

By Daniel Duford

72 pp., 12x8.5, perfect bound, paperback

Summer is in the air as The Naked Boy saga continues. The Naked Boy grows older as he crosses the continent to kill The Great Bear. In this episode he meets a family of escaping slaves en route to Freedom City. Freedom City has another knickname- The City of Big Men, and the City of Big Men is the heart of a vast military industrial complex. The Governor of Freedom City is going to run for president and the Naked Boy is the key to his campaign. Ursula and The Great Bear try to find out who is keeping them from contacting The Naked Boy directly. And the Naked Boy continues to lose body parts as he rambles West in this exciting second chapter of this American epic

$10.00

People of Coloring Book

By Hazel Newlevant

Description Coming Soon

$6.00

Picket Line

By Breena Wiederhoeft

272 pp., 8.25x6.5, softcover, perfect bound

Xeric Grant Award Winner from Breena Weiderhoeft, Picket Line tells the story of Beatrice, a Midwestern girl living in northern California, who gets caught in the middle of a mounting battle between environmentalists and an unpopular land developer. In order to soothe her restless craving to belong, she must pick a side between her well-meaning boss Rex, and a growing mass of protestors fighting to save their treasured Redwoods. In this in-between state, Picket Line sets up camp, and its characters take their stand.

$19.95

The Sigh

By Marjane Satrapi

56pp., 8x6.5, hard cover, color

From the author of Persopolis, Marjane Satrapi, The Sigh is an all-ages fairy tale of longing, loyalty, and contentment. Rose, the youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant, asks her father for a rare gift from his travels. When his search proves fruitless, her sigh of resignation attracts a mysterious being who grants her desire, but at a cost. Gruesome, romantic, and wise, The Sigh beautifully illustrates the meaning of devotion and love.

$10.95

The Super Crazy Cat Dance

hardcover

$10.99

Tales of Woodsman Pete

80 pgs., 6.8 x 5.7

From the publisher: From Lilli Carre, one of the bright new faces in the indy comix scene -- Tales of Woodsman Pete is a collection of vignettes and stories about a solitary albeit gregarious woodsman with a loose grasp on his own personal history and that of the outside world. He forms relationships with his inanimate surroundings and muses to a dead audience, specifically his bear rug, Philippe. His own tales eventually become entangled with that of the legendary Paul Bunyan, and the two become indirectly intertwined, illuminating the discrepancy between the character of the storyteller and the character within his stories. The lives of both Paul and Pete encounter such things as the questionable origin of an ocean and the desire for preservation of everything from a fallen bird to an overused expression that has strayed a stone's throw from its original meaning.

$7.00