Picked up a copy of “Food Price Blackmail,” a half-comic, half-screed published in 1973 by United Front Press. It’s laboriously researched, well-written, and… shows how history can repeat itself under similar administrations.
getting ready to retire my daily carry bag that I hand painted a few years ago. thought y'all might like it.
I always hoped someone out in the wild would comment on it and reveal themselves as my soulmate, but alas it only ever happened once and I was at my local comic shop so it barely even counted (lol). I think my next bag is going to be a nod to Transmetropolitan.
I believe this was from the “NY Press”, 1990’s.
A while ago I discovered Chris's work, and it made me see what I do in a different way. I'm impressed by how much his thinking about graphic narratives manages to expand the format. This page is the most recent one I've done, inspired by what I've seen him do in his career but creating something of my own, using characters from my graphic novel Afronta, originally released in 2018. The new version of the graphic novel that I will reprint will have the original story and this new page printed in A3 format inserted inside the book. This artwork was created on an A2 sheet of paper, measuring 54x68cm. It was difficult, but I'm very happy to have finished it.
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Yes, I'm Brazilian, and that's why the text is in Portuguese! hahaha
Hey everyone! I am looking to read more comics discussing sex (either erotic in nature or not) that are either by women or have a female-empowering perspective. I've been really into Juliette Collet and Julie Doucet and would love to find more artists that depict and discuss sex in interesting ways! Also please warn me if your recommendation contains sexual assault in any way. Thank you!
Specifically like one-man anthology comics (ie. Eightball, Yummy Fur, Optic Nerve, shit like that.). It seem like the only ones Fantagraphics publish are ones from artists who have been highly regarded for decades, and I don’t think Drawn & Quarterly publishes any. The main reason I ask is because I’ve got a series I’m cooking up and I’d really like to try to take it to a publisher, but I’m worried it’ll be a fool’s errand. If there’s any other publishers that I should correspond with, I’d love to hear it. Thanks in advance :)
Venus finds Black Hole in her local comic store.
Walked into my local shop today and looked around for a while. Last stop was the locked glass case to see the animals, but never take them home. Glossed right over two books I’ve been after for over a decade. Four steps after, I swear to god I must have had a cartoon expression of shock as I realized what I didn’t notice immediately.
Fixed that. Adopted them, now they’re happy running around with the others in the barn.
I was in Toronto for a work/family related trip last week, and was tremendously glad to get to spend some time in the city's used bookstores and comic shops. I posted earlier about the items I was most excited to find—4 binders full of the Penthouse comic 'Oh, Wicked Wanda!'—and here's the rest of the, ultimately rather excessive, haul. Almost all of it from The Beguiling, which I've for years considered the best comic store in Canada or the US, both for its unparalleled selection of comics across genres and periods, and for its fair prices and kind staff (if you've other contenders, I'd love to hear them!). I hit the large BMV as well, where I found a bunch of cheap Spawn (not something I seek out, but I'll grab copies if they're a buck or two) and a Vortex title I'd never heard of, S'not for Kids.
Particularly excited here for the two issues of Dave Cooper's early Chronic Idiocy, for a few more issues of Chester Brown's classic Yummy Fur (only three issues to go), for the first two issues of Rich Tomasso's Black Phoenix (I like his cartooning a lot, but new issues are widly expensive—was glad to find these cheap), and the little stack of Fiona Smyth zines in the last photo.
I couldn't resist grabbing a stack of Eros Comix anthology titles, Blowjob, Dildo, Head, and Rear Entry from the Beguiling. By many accounts the Eros imprint kept Fantagraphics afloat in the 90s and early 2000s, and though they published some trashy pornographic work, some incredible cartoonists contributed to their anthologies or had solo titles—Ho Che Anderson, Colleen Coover, R. Crumb, Bob Fingerman, Molly Fleener, Grass Green, Gilbert Hernandez, Molly Kiely, Don Simpson, Frank Thorne, Bill Willingham, Wally Wood, etc. Their books are a weird part of comics history that I'm fascinated by, and I pick them up whenever I can find them for reasonable prices (many are pretty inflated on the secondary market these days).
Unfortunately The Beguiling had partially shut down their back-issue space in their basement to prepare for an upcoming convention the day before I visited, so I couldn't dig through the full extent of their indie and underground back issues; but given that I found far more than I was anticipating as is, that was probably for the best.
Curious what stands our to folks here—and very interested in recommendations, either for shops elsewhere which offer this kind of stock, for for interesting and underknown titles, based on what I picked up.
I thought this was pretty cool but I'll reserve comment until Reddit reaches a consensus on how I should feel.
Based on an urban legend that purports to have happened where I grew up.
Musical Squares 04
From Exclaim! Magazine 2025
By Robb Mirsky
I really want that record…….
Sorry for the overdramatic title! 😄 I'm very happy that I finally managed to obtain this book. And if someone doesn't know what this is, Katz is a pirated edition of Art Spiegelman's Maus, with all characters redrawn as cats.
Apparently around 800 copies were printed, and it was originally sold at the 2012 Angoulême Comic Festival. However due to copyright infringement, most copies where shredded a few months later.
More info here: https://ilanmanouach.com/work/katz/