Alternative Comics comic books issue 1

1st printing. Story and art by Aron Nels Steinke. Drawn in beautiful black and white, Neptune is an all-ages graphic novel about a couple of kids and their dog, Neptune, who just might have supernatural powers. Playful and witty, Neptune is quite simply a pleasure to read. The debut graphic novel by the creator of Big Plans and Zoo Box. A Sparkplug & Tugboat production. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.00.

2nd Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Katie Skelly. The debut graphic novel by My Pretty Vampire creator Katie Skelly is back. What is Nurse Nurse? It is a comic book about the future. It is a prediction about television. It is a cautionary tale about butterflies. It is science fiction for all kinds of people. Have an adventure. Originally a Sparkplug production. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Kilian Eng. Object 15 is the third collection in Kilian Eng's successful monograph series, following the acclaimed books Object 5 and Object 10. Kilian's images present alternate worlds and vibrant surreal and hard science fiction environments. A Floating World Production. Hardcover, 80 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Jon Allen. Three cartoon animals live together in a Midwestern house. They get jobs, get sick, and throw parties. Their lives are lit by street lamps and the flickering TV set. They do incredibly stupid things with hilarious and disastrous results. It's about friendship, booze, and the slow collapse of western civilization. And they're so cute! Softcover, 8-in.x 8-in., 272 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Written by Dylan Williams and Ben Catmull. Art by Gabrielle Bell. Cover by Mats and Ted May. A cool compilation of actual Victorian stories interpreted by ten different artists. Highlights include 'Tobermory', written by H.H. Munro and adapted by Gabrielle Bell, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" adapted by David Lasky; and, the compelling 'Green Tea' by J. Sheriden Le Fanu and adapted by Kevin Huizenga (Ganges). A Sparkplug production. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Danny Hellman. In a near-future world, porn publisher Harry Homburg clings to the hope that exclusive photos of a US President caught in flagrante delicto will save his crumbling business. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans for him. He will travel beyond the boundaries of our world, to a strange place where the rules of existence are subject to the whims of unseen entities. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 112 pages, Text (with full color illustrations). Cover price $15.99.

1st printing. Written by Pete Toms. Art and cover by Aleks Sennwald. A loving and hilarious pastiche of the detective genre. Legendary kid detective "Pops" Popowski prefers to work alone. But when she's saddled with a rookie partner named Mary Branwell, Pops won't stop until she discovers who offed Mary's parents, whether Branwell wants her to or not. Softcover, 6-in. x 6-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

1st printing.

By Jen Sorensen.

Jen Sorensen returns with this hilarious Xeric Award-winning collection of alternative newsweekly strips. Jam-packed with gags, Slowpoke tackles the absurdities of present-day American life with rib-tickling gusto. Uptight Mr. Perkins, jaded Little Gus and horny Drooly Julie provide a witty commentary on the politics and culture of our times. Find out whether evil scientists succeed in cryogenically freezing Julie's libido.

For the finest in absurdist humor and sharp artwork from one of the most talented women cartoonists working today, this collection is a must!

Softcover, 6-in. x 6-in., 62 pages, B&W.

Cover price $5.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Jonathan Baylis. Art by Noah Van. Cover by Dean Haspiel. Collects the choicest slices of life from ten years of So Buttons, writer Jonathan Baylis's autobiographical comics series, as well as two new stories, "So... Hallow" with art by Rick Parker and Noah Van Sciver and "So... Bejeweled" with art by Rachel Dukes. Baylis utilizes an all-star cadre of indie artists to illustrate his true-life tales including Jim Steranko, Joseph Remnant, Fred Hembeck, Dean Haspiel, Jay Lynch, Ed Piskor, and Tom Scioli. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 184 pages, full color. Cover price $20.00.

Add to cart Fine $5.99

1st printing.

Story and art by Graham Annable.

An eccentric George Stickleback spends life in his apartment with his cat Patty, surrounded by meticulously arranged men of toilet paper. But a mission from the outside world to console a friend imposes an unwelcome break in Mr. Stickleback's routine!

Softcover, 48 pages, B&W.

Cover price $6.95.

Add to cart VF- 7.5 $7.49

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Written and Illustrated by Kevin Scalzo. 5" x 7", 32 pages, full color. Cover price $5.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Hazel Reed Newlevant.

A bisexual, polyamorous love story for the modern era. Hazel is already in a happy relationship when she meets Argent, a dominatrix who is sweet and tender outside of the bedroom. Sugar Town is a fun, colorful comic about a young woman's journey through the delights and disappointments of multiple lovers.

Softcover, 56 pages, full color.

Cover price $10.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Steven Cerio. A long awaited book of all-new, never before published short comics and art by Steven Cerio. Included in Sunbeam on The Astronaut are comic book adventures of Cerio's characters from his various films with top-hatted, eyeball-performance greats The Residents; a dozen short narratives; a collection of paintings and collages and stills from his newest film The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow; and much more. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Carlos Gonzalez. Test Tube follows three people living in a faceless city of decrepit movie theaters, girlie night clubs, and paper thin apartment buildings. Within that stew, they are exposed to strange photographs, statues, cardboard cut-outs, and sexual mania. Their destinies converge, revealing an ambitious plot to accelerate human evolution. The debut graphic novel by Carlos Gonzalez. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Joel Orff.

Bob Frank is a Twin Cities cab driver and part time cartoonist without much direction in his life. A surprise postcard from a long-lost love opens up a whole new world. Bob is an artist with a creative block who loses himself in an aimless existence; while Casey suffers from deep-seated anxiety and feelings of abandonment. Brought together through an unexpected circumstance, they begin to open up and trust each other, gradually finding that their fears of being hurt are overcome by the simple joys that they now share.

As they tentatively try to build a life together, the harsh realities of the outside world begin to intrude on their happiness, but the experience changes them both in fundamental ways.

Softcover, 6-in. x 7-in., 132 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Story and art by William Cardini. Welcome to the psychedelic space fantasy cosmos of the Hyperverse, a realm filled with immensely powerful beings who battle over worlds with strange geologies and hoard advanced technologies left by ancient starfarers. Vortex follows the powerful sorcerer the Miizzzard as he travels to a mysterious planet and battles a strange, regenerating monster. Softcover, 136 pages, B&W. Cover price $13.00.

1st printing. By Gabrielle Bell. New York-based cartoonist Gabrielle Bell brings together thirty-five of the popular "Book of" series, plus several extra short comics, displaying the broad range of Bell's storytelling and cartooning talent. Her fiction includes "Book of Black," a story of Kate, a pretty young rhinoplasty assistant who encounters happy-go-lucky street people, a lascivious landlord, vapid co-workers, and Trent Reznor on her descent into madness. Bell's autobiographical tales feature the author as an eccentric old lady, a five hundred-foot-tall woman, in England, in Mexico with a baby, and being charmed and hypnotized by colorful San Francisco characters. Softcover, 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

1st printing. Story and art by Andrea Tsurumi. A collection of comics finding the asburd in everything from poodles and sports fans to pie and the Civil War. Tsurumi's comics deftly combine stunningly beautiful imagery with wildly funny commentary about life as she observes it. The result is a comic style that somehow manages to be ridiculous and sublime. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $10.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Anna Ehrlemark. Anna Ehrlemark (Sweden) is well known in Eastern Europe for her unconventional, twisted narratives and her striking visual style. Her comics explore feminist, queer, anti-capitalist themes and she has been published by the Balkan collectives Stripburger, Fijuk, and Komikaze. Winners collects 128 pages of her stories about family, nostalgia, chance, witchcraft, sex, abstinence, economy, and revenge. Science fiction in a future that is already old. Softcover, 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

1st printing. By Leslie Anne Mackenzie Stein. A Xeric Grant Recipient! A bold and humorous picaresque featuring an adolescent misfit and the oddball characters she seeks to befriend after losing her best buddy to a distant suburb. Hipster wannabes, cheesy New-Agers, and co-dependent 13-year-old girls are meticulously illustrated with cut paper and ink, making this Xeric-winning graphic novella a fun and unique read. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 48 pages, B&W Cover price $5.99.