The startling new comic-tragic book from the artist The Comics Journal describes as “the scarily young and skillful Dash Shaw.” In a pre-Katrina New Orleans, a woman starts dating a younger man who reminds her of her deceased ex-boyfriend. They begin re-enacting scenes from her previous relationship as a psychodrama to correct her haunting past. Replete with Pac-Man ghost spirits, Michael Jackson, children’s drawings and deathtrap sandboxes, “The Mother’s Mouth” is a smarter, unsentimental Blankets that is THE weirdo romance book of 2006. Not to be missed.
More Dash Shaw comics at Poopsheet Shop II.
Publishers Weekly calls Sam Henderson "truly one of the world's funniest cartoonists." His Magic Whistle series has been nominated every single year since 1999 for the Harvey Award for "Special Award for Humor," and Sam was nominated for an Emmy for his writing for SpongeBob SquarePants.
Henderson’s drawing is intentionally crude, but it has the same kind of energy you see in the work of today's best gag cartoonists. Extremely low-brow humor that almost parodies low-brow humor – it is enjoyable on either level.
Jon Lewis, creator of the long-running, Ignatz Award-nominated True Swamp, now unveils the paranormal, superhuman and straight-up bizarre world of The 6. From their unassuming old house on Pine Street, this rarely-seen, little-understood group carries on a bold exploration of the very limits of human experience and the cosmos. The 6 comprise some of the most extraordinary people alive—and naive young Jerry Weiss wants to join them. So he simply shows up uninvited at their front door, suitcase and all! Then, to make a good first impression, he accidentally opens a portal to interdimensional evil, gets his head swallowed by a flaming starfish, and nearly kills his hosts with a black sword.
Is Jerry extraordinary enough to run with the 6? Are YOU extraordinary enough to read about it?
Out-of-print mini-comics by Jon Lewis at Poopsheet Shop II.
Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Josh Neufeld returns with The Vagabonds #2: Of Two Minds, featuring an array of Neufeld's comics collaborations. Collaboration has always been part of Neufeld's comix repertoire — with Dean Haspiel in Keyhole and R. Walker in Titans of Finance, Duplex Planet Illustrated's David Greenberger, and with American Splendor's Harvey Pekar (still ongoing). And in The Vagabonds #2, that tradition continues – with some strange twists and turns. Contributors include Pekar, Greenberger, Walker, artist Martha Rosler, award-winning poet/memoirist Nick Flynn, literary cult figure Eileen Myles, and the New York downtown theater company The Civilians – as well such offbeat collaborators as The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," a 1980 issue of Superman, and Neufeld's own mirror reflection!
More comics by Josh Neufeld at Poopsheet Shop II.
Other recent releases include the eight volume of the Meathaus anthology, Tomer Hanuka's The Placebo Man and Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret and Asaf Hanuka.
Learn more at the Alternative Comics website.
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