Mini-comics, art zines, fanzines and other self-published items of curiosity.

image © Carol Kossack

Cartoonist David Miller has recently started up a new website devoted to archiving the photography work of the late Clay Geerdes. For those unfamiliar, Geerdes was also an author, a cartoonist and the publisher of the Comix World / Comix Wave line of newave mini-comics. He is an extremely important figure in the history of mini-comics and photography was just one of the ways he documented the underground comix scene.

The sample above is of Mad Magazine's William Gaines. Other subjects at the site include R. Crumb, Spain, S. Clay Wilson, Harvey Kurtzman, Carl Barks, Charles Schulz, Rory Hayes and so many more (with many more to come).

Check it out for yourself at: http://comixcomics.blogspot.com/

For more info on Clay Geerdes, please refer to this obituary written by longtime collaborator Par Holman.

A fraction of the hundreds of minis Geerdes published can be browsed in the Poopsheet Shop.

Crazy Men is Michael Roden's art brut / "ugly art" series that began in 1982. Roden has recently begun publishing again, much to my own enjoyment, and #10 contains work by Tom Brinkmann (who did the cover), Andy Nukes, Brad Foster, Bob "X", Jim Thompson, Mike Mitchell, Arrington De Dionyso and Roden himself. Check out the Thru Black Holes Comix website for more info.

Find more Thru Black Holes Comix in Poopsheet Shop I.
Find other work by Michael Roden, Tom Brinkmann, Andy Nukes, Brad Foster, Bob X and Jim Thompson in Poopsheet Shop II.



Super by Kevin Breslawski comes in these nifty little packages that also include stickers, buttons and other fun stuff. Lots of full-color comics and sketchbook excerpts worth checking out. You can find some sample images at the Mortekai blog.



Funketti is the latest print project from Alan Rankin (Road Scholar) and is a wordless fumetti (photo comics) experiment involving actors and his own photography. Mysterious and cosmic. E-mail Alan Rankin for more info.

Find by James McShane (Carmine and Darnell and the Sleepy Creatures, Kramers Ergot) contains a small story in a small format under a two-color silkscreened cover.

Find it in the Poopsheet Shop



Elsewhere #2 by Gary Sullivan is a collection of imagery originally seen on a walk up Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn.

Find it in the Poopsheet Shop

Stripburger is an amazing international anthology based out of Slovenia that I've been enjoying for roughly a decade. A comix anthology that's been published for over ten years is certainly a rarity and fortunately, for you and me, Stripburger continues on.

Issue 44 is the latest and contains high quality comics and art from around the globe by artists such as Willem, Koren Shadmi, Vladan Nikolic, Kaze Dolemite, Nicola Witko, Wostok, Sylvain Schnaidt and many others. Special features this issue include a special section devoted to the French collective Les Requins Marteaux and an interview with Wostok. 99.9% of the comics are in English and the text features are in Slovenian but there's an English translation booklet included.

As of this writing, this latest issue hasn't been added to their website but there are many sample pages from many previous issues to check out so please do yourself a favor and go there.

Stripburger website