Float comic books issue 1

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(W) Rich Tommaso (A) Rich Tommaso (CA) Rich Tommaso Rich Tommaso spent over six years--going from his work on a variety of Black Phoenix projects and returning every so often, to this special one, to slowly craft a panel here and a page there, little by little. All in an effort to sharply hone his skills in order to produce a comics art work reminiscent of the early 1952-1956 Mad magazines! Studying (and deeply admiring) the Mad works of Will Elder, Wally Wood, Jack Davis and of course, the Mad creator himself, Harvey Kurtzman, by 2026, after five months of uninterrupted work, Rich has finally finished this long-awaited project. In this one-shot comic book, APE No. 1, youll read about mad scientists, strange visitors from outer space, horny bald men in newspaper offices, gun crazy cowboys, junkies, flunkies, businessmen, husbands, wives, lovers, haters and angst-ridden teenagers!,,,Everything youd expect to find in an old, mid-20th-century issue of Mad! 32 pages, full color, not rated. Cover price $6.00.

Written by Greg & Fake, MARC KOPRINAROV. Art by Greg & Fake, Josh Pettinger. Cover by Greg & Fake. A newsprint explosion of comics and entertainment! Sink your teeth into a brand-new Santos Sisters adventure, struggle to contain your laughter at Josh Pettinger's Tedward, and explore a treasure trove of articles. This ain't your average mag-it's a raw, unapologetic celebration of comics culture. Walk on the wild side! 32 pages, full B&W. Cover price $6.00.

Written by MARC KOPRINAROV Art by GREG & FAK. One day while combing the beach, the Santos Sisters discovered a pair of beautiful medallions. What happened next changed their lives, forever. Follow Ambar and Alana, the Santos Sisters, as they balance spicy superheroics with the drama of their everyday lives in this GIANT SIZED extravaganza offset printed on decadent newsprint. 56 page, full color. Cover price $5.00.

Written by MARC KOPRINAROV, Greg & Fake. Art and Cover by GREG & FAK. 'One day while combing the beach, the Santos Sisters discovered a pair of beautiful medallions. What happened next changed their lives, forever.' Follow Ambar and Alana, the Santos Sisters, as they balance spicy superheroics with the drama of their everyday lives in this giant sized extravaganza offset printed on decadent newsprint. 26 pages, full color. Cover price $6.00.

Written by MARC KOPRINAROV, Greg & Fake. Art and Cover by GREG & FAK. 'One day while combing the beach, the Santos Sisters discovered a pair of beautiful medallions. What happened next changed their lives, forever.' Follow Ambar and Alana, the Santos Sisters, as they balance spicy superheroics with the drama of their everyday lives in this GIANT SIZED extravaganza offset printed on decadent newsprint. 26 pages, full color. Cover price $6.00.

Written by Farel Dalrymple. Art and Cover by Farel Dalrymple. Robot Tod follows the adventures of the titular hero Tod, who is trying to regain memories and avoid capture by malicious wizards. This first issue introduces his companions: The kindly and shy Sept, her vitriolic and selectively invisible alter ego Ember, the inventive mouse person Furn Fells, and Gwyelder the enigmatic fox guide. This new and lushly watercolored, ongoing series is set in the same post-apocalyptic, psychedelic, magical world of The Wrenchies and It Will All Hurt. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

Written by Dave Baker. Art and Cover by Alexis Ziritt. If you want to live in Gran Caracas you have two options: become a cop or die. Night Hunters by Alexis Ziritt (Space Riders) and Dave Baker (F*** Off Squad) tells the tale of two brothers who have to navigate the futuristic cyberpunk world of Venezuela 100 years in the future. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

2nd Printing. Written by Dave Baker. Art and Cover by Alexis Ziritt. If you want to live in Gran Caracas you have two options: become a cop or die. Night Hunters by Alexis Ziritt (Space Riders) and Dave Baker (F*** Off Squad) tells the tale of two brothers who have to navigate the futuristic cyberpunk world of Venezuela 100 years in the future. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

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(W/A/CA) Harry NordlingerDid you ever attend a Laser Quest birthday party as a kid? Were you scared by the darkness of the seemingly endless laser maze? Did you get lost in the twisting hallways and think you'd never be found? Did you run into the tribe of lost children that have been stuck in the maze for years? When little Johnny attends a Laser Quest birthday party in the year 2000 these are the questions that cross his mind. Laser Quest combines liminal space horror, 2000s nostalgia, and the dark chiaroscuro artwork of Harry Nordlinger, to create a haunting tale of childhood memories, nightmares and trauma. 36 pages, black and white. 36 pages, black and white, not rated. Cover price $6.99.

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(W) Sam Ashurst (A) Tony M Clarke (CA) Tony M Clarke When all-woman punk band Hanna and The Hells set out to perform the perfect gig, Satan himself couldn't stand in their way - even if the Hells ambitions include heisting a gently weeping guitar from... The Beatles! It's anarchy in the UK as Hanna, Razor, Trash, and Fetish come together to twist and shout the Fab Four into submission - with John, Paul, George and Ringo needing more than love to make it out alive! God save 'em! Writer Sam Ashurst is a cartoonist, screenwriter and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Artist Tony M Clarke is a 70s punk rocker turned 80s psychotronic bootlegger based in London, England. 32 pages, not rated, B&W Cover price $6.00.

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Written by Keenan Marshall Keller. Art by Alex Delaney. Cover by Keenan Marshall. Keller Shelia Knox awakes from a two week coma to find her life torn apart. Her children have been savagely murdered. Her husband is missing. Her hand completely mangled and her throat slit to within inches of her jugular… Leaving her with nothing left to live for. A 4 issue mini-series overflowing with gritty exploitation action about the power of anger/loss and the clarity of vision that vengeance can provide. 44 pages, full color. Cover price $8.00.

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Cover by Jo Chen. Written by Patton Oswalt. Art by Patric Reynolds and Dave Stewart. Acclaimed writer/actor/comedian Patton Oswalt (The Goon, Batman, JLA, Dollhouse, Ratatouille) brings back one of Firefly's most beloved characters in this special spotlight issue! Always ready with a brilliant aerial maneuver and a terrible one-liner, Wash was pilot of the Firefly-class ship Serenity in Joss Whedon's cult-classic TV series before being killed in the movie. Float Out includes three brand-new stories of Wash in a series of exciting smuggling raids, each providing a hair-raising escape or daring last-minute rescue! Featuring a cameo that will leave Serenity fans reeling, this special one-shot presents new tales of the Serenity universe's past and tantalizing hints about its future! Acclaimed writer/actor/comedian Patton Oswalt pens Serenity! Cover price $3.50.

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Cover by Frank Stockton. Written by Patton Oswalt. Art by Patric Reynolds and Dave Stewart. Acclaimed writer/actor/comedian Patton Oswalt (The Goon, Batman, JLA, Dollhouse, Ratatouille) brings back one of Firefly's most beloved characters in this special spotlight issue! Always ready with a brilliant aerial maneuver and a terrible one-liner, Wash was pilot of the Firefly-class ship Serenity in Joss Whedon's cult-classic TV series before being killed in the movie. Float Out includes three brand-new stories of Wash in a series of exciting smuggling raids, each providing a hair-raising escape or daring last-minute rescue! Featuring a cameo that will leave Serenity fans reeling, this special one-shot presents new tales of the Serenity universe's past and tantalizing hints about its future! Acclaimed writer/actor/comedian Patton Oswalt pens Serenity! Cover price $3.50.

(W) Jeff Lewis A seafaring adventure into a Pacific typhoon in 1967, plus: superheroes are addicted to smartphones, God invents a better name for comic books and 'Why Would I Be Stressed Out?' catalogs the anxieties of the modern indie artist and musician. Acclaimed songwriter/artist Jeffrey Lewis follows up his 13-issue series Fuff with the debut of his new ongoing series Statics! Cover price $5.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Labyrinth!" Text by Guido Buzzelli and Jamie Richards. Art and cover by Guido Buzzelli. A series of volumes collecting Guido Buzzelli's stories in English for the first time. Featuring never-seen-before work, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his death and his masterful skill and subversive art. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 136 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.99.

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Written by Sean Fagan and Cinque Lee. Art by Lance Tooks. Cover by Lance Tooks. Floaters takes place in an alternate world where narcotics are legal and urban warfare is a way of life. Several generations of racial interbreeding has produced a new race of exotically beautiful "rainbow people," many of whom are addicted to a drug known as Cloud Seven which, when inhaled, causes the addict to float. The drug's inventor, Dr. Taylor (T-Lex) Lexington has uncovered important information regarding a dangerous new form of Cloud Seven; but before he can discuss his findings with his star pupil, Increase, he's struck down by a poison dart from an unknown assailant! While T-Lex lies in a coma, Increase and his friends begin to unravel the mysteries surrounding the manufacture of the drug -- a mystery they may not survive! 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.

Final Cut Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Inés Estrada. Imagine a future in which you live pay check to pay check in a small apartment where you spend most of your time online… except one of your best friends is an AI, the internet is in your brain, and virtual reality is indistinguishable from your dreams! This sci-fi / horror graphic novel, originally released as a series of self-published zines before the pandemic, is finally back to give you the chills with how eerily it's become closer to our reality than ever. The story follows a young couple in Alaska as theyre forced to confront questions of intimacy, climate change, and the power of technology. This "Final Cut" edition features new pages as well as deleted dialogues and more material that was only included in the original zines. Softcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 250 pages, 2C. Mature Readers Cover price $24.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Something Has Gone Horribly Wrong!" Story and art by Rich Tommaso. BLACK PHOENIX is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres-all dreamed up by its sole author, Rich Tommaso. Don't be fooled by the pseudonyms inside-he changes names as often as drawing styles. But, the magazine is also like a walk through comics history itself. Each volume of these golden age, pulp styled digest anthologies is headed up by a long-form comics adventure which is backed up by a bunch of short-form comicsin the same genre or flavor. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 136 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

1st printing.

Written by Josh Bayer. Art by Al Milgrom, Benjamin Marra, Noah Van Sciver, and Herb Trimpe. Cover by Benjamin Marra.

Old world meets new world as indie cartoonists and classic comic book creators collaborate with Editor-In-Chief Josh Bayer to unleash a superhero book that dares to follow its own path. All Time Comics embraces old-school, four-color nostalgia to deliver everything you could hope for in comics, a seamless circle between the past and the future.

Atlas: his only weakness is fear! Blind Justice : the man who walks through bullets! Bullwhip: here to put a stop to the bullsh*t! Crime Destroyer: will fight for justice or die trying! These four heroes face an over-the-top lineup of villains including The Misogynist, Raingod, White Warlock, Krimson Kross, P.S.Y.C.H.O., and the Time Vampire.

Softcover, 224 pages, full color.



Cover price $24.99.

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Written by Josh Bayer and Josh Simmons. Art by Gabrielle Bell and Trevor Von Eeden. Cover by Das Pastorus. Part 1 of 5. The Beggar terrorizes Optic City while The Daylight Savings Time Killer stabs his way to glory. Blind Justice meets a new level of street brutality. Time Vampire Scientist meddles! Toby Whey's tweaking! Bullwhip + Crime Destroyer! Face-melting art by Trevor Von Eeden And Gabrielle Bell! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Hanawa Kazuichi. Hanawa's comics, while linked intimately to the very foundations of culture and education, are imbued with the reality of nonsense. - Akasegawa Genpei Breakdown Press is honoured to publish another classic of underground manga in the shape of Red Night by Hanawa Kazuichi. A wild entry into a violent world of obsession, madness and the perversity of the gods. In Hanawa's work cruelty and decadence go hand in hand, and desire is accompanied by a macabre twist. Hanawa Kazuichi is one of the true pioneers of manga - his trailblazing work in erotic grotesquerie and folk horror has made him one of Japan's most revered and imitated mangaka. Since his debut in the legendary alt manga magazine Garo in 1971, Hanawa has been skewering the morals of Japanese society through chilling tales of debauched medieval aristocracy, many of which are collected in this volume. First published in 1985, Red Night was Hanawa's breakout book in Japan. This translation of the expanded edition is his first collection in English since his 2006 manga Doing Time, about the artist's imprisonment for illegal possession of a firearm. Published by Breakdown Press. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 224 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Collects All Time Comics: Zerosis Deathscape (2019 Floating World) #0-6.

Written by Josh Bayer and Josh Simmons. Art by Josh Bayer, Josh Simmons, Ken Landgraf, Gabrielle Bell, Trevor Von Eeden, Benjamin Marra, Thomas Toye, Julia Gfrörer, Patrick Keck, and Will Iverson. Cover by Josh Simmons.

Optic City, the 1980s.

A frightened orphan, a city on fire, and a glimmer of light spraying from the switchblade of a golden warrior emerging from a legion of scum. The heroes: Justice, Crime Destroyer, Bullwhip, Atlas! The villains: DLST Killer, Rain God, Beggar, Zerosis! And who are Red Maniac and Time Vampire Scientist? Where do their loyalties lie? Who is this strange alien on a faraway planet a trillion dimensions, light years and time zones removed from our own? What is this power cube of mysterious origin, containing power of infinite magnitude? What is Atlas's friend Toby Whey doing, exactly?

Softcover, 224 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Sasaki Maki. Finally! A new edition of the long-out of print Ding Dong Cicus. This collection re-presents, for the first time in English, the best of Sasaki Makiâ's work, mainly from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories here follow Sasakiâ's groundbreaking exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling, weaving through references to R&B, rock ‘n†roll, the Vietnam War, Andy Warhol, the Summer of Love, the Beatles, British humour, and the wacky world of Japanese consumerism. Ding Dong Circus demonstrates what manga fans already knew: that in Sasaki Maki, Japan can claim not only a pioneer in experimental comics, but one of the worldâ's masters of Pop Art and a trenchant avant-garde critic of the Sixties. Published by Breakdown Press. Softcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $27.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Rich Tommaso. Why can't Trina Catanzaro ever catch a break? She and her partner-in-crime, Dina just got away with millions in diamond necklaces and other sexy jewels. But their scheme to fence the stolen goods came up empty. Now the plan is to pull another job, a fine art heist, and use the goods to burn the people who burned them. This is where things really start to go south... IN THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS is Rich Tommaso's debut novel with the dynamic duo, Trina and Dina- also known as The Tea Leaves! Softcover, 5-in. x 6 1/2-in., 88 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $12.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Rich Tommaso. Welcome to the thrilling world of international espionage! Follow Spy Seal on high-speed car chases, hopping bullet trains, climbing down underground tunnels, and flying high above the clouds, in jet-fueled seaplanes. All to hunt down a very dangerous British-turned-Soviet double-agent. Posing as an art dealer, this Soviet spy begins killing off important figures of Parliament... and that's when Spy Seal is put on the case! What is the reasoning behind this double-agent's terrorist actions? Why are three masked bunnies vandalizing paintings in every gallery across Europe? And just what is this mysterious and elusive Corten-Steel Phoenix anyway? This Hardcover is limited to a single printing! Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, full color. Teen Cover price $29.99.

1st printing. Written by Guillermo Ortego. Art and cover by Mariano Krasmanski. The misadventures of a shipwrecked guy abandoned to his fate in the middle of the ocean are told in this illustrated narrative. Clinging to a wooden box floating adrift, the protagonist reflects on his life: his past experiences as well as his slim chances of survival. Helpless and unable to do anything to improve his condition, he is consumed in his constant daydreams, alternating between absolute despair and quiet abandonment, while suffering from hunger and thirst amidst treacherous weather. His thoughts are related in a stream of consciousness style as he navigates both the physical challenge of the seas and the solitary existence of his mind. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 5-in., 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Elmeer, Valis, Rich Tommaso, Martin Timeslip, Rififi, and Felix Braunschwiller. Cover by Felix Braunschwiller. BLACK PHOENIX is a contemporary comics series featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres-all dreamed up by its sole author and illustrator, Eisner Award winning creator, Rich Tommaso. This collection features Tommaso's take on the classic 1950s genre stories of EC Comics, the 1940s romance comics of Archie, the late 1930s pulp adventure strips of Detective Comics and Marvel Mystery Comics-and even the Franco-Belgian comics explosion sparked by Tintin. Everything is here: this beautiful, full-color hardcover contains the complete BLACK PHOENIX run from issues #1-10, covers and all! Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 460 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $100.00.

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Written and Art by Steve Aylett. Dead inside? Hair on the blink? House tornado liquidizing the furniture? Here's a fab new rectangle from Steve Aylett. You'll have a field day with this shredding medley of smashed treasure and murky diatribes. Eternity, My favorite! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $5.99.

Written by James MacNaughton. Cover and Art by David Bamford. Donned in a skin-tight bodysuit and armed with a retractable staff-axe, space soldier Lance Stanton embarks deep into the treacherous wastelands to seek out villainous traitor Philip Freedmon, while facing off against a gang of bedraggled hippie warriors and homicidal robots. Power Comics resurrects this obscure DIY gem from 1989. 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Box Brown. New York Times-bestseller and Eisner Award-winner Brian Box Brown returns with a collection of his weekly comic strip which focuses on the ins and outs of cannabis legalization. LEGALIZATION NATION collects the last 3 years worth of strips and is considered by many in cannabis circles to be the true conscience of the cannabis world. Hardcover, 9-in. x 6-in., 154 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $26.00.

1st printing. Collects Night Hunters (2020 Floating World) #1-4.

Written by Dave Baker. Art and cover by Alexis Ziritt.

Night Hunters is a pulsing cyberpunk classic that tells the tale of two brothers who have to navigate the futuristic dystopian world of Venezuela, 100 years in the future.

Softcover, 112 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Foreword by Chris Jalufka.

Collects the first three sold-out monographs by Swedish illustrator, Kilian Eng. This definitive edition collects all of Eng's otherworldly landscapes and retro-futuristic illustrations in one massive volume, including previously unpublished works. Each dreamlike image transports the viewer to a unique environment, full of engrossing detail and surreal beauty.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 256 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.95.

2nd and later printings.

Foreword by Chris Jalufka.

Collects the first three sold-out monographs by Swedish illustrator, Kilian Eng. This definitive edition collects all of Eng's otherworldly landscapes and retro-futuristic illustrations in one massive volume, including previously unpublished works. Each dreamlike image transports the viewer to a unique environment, full of engrossing detail and surreal beauty.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 256 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Children of the Damned!"

Story and art by Charles Forsman.

Revenger travels a broken United States helping the weak and exploited through the use of extreme violence. When all else fails, revenger evens the score. A hyperviolent graphic novel from the creator of The End of the F&#!ing World and I Am Not Okay With Us, following the exploits of Revenger. A hardboiled festival of force, fights--but not forgiveness.

Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

1st printing. Story and art by Rich Tommaso. Welcome to the thrilling world of international espionage! Follow Spy Seal on high-speed car chases, hopping bullet trains, climbing down underground tunnels, and flying high above the clouds, in jet-fueled seaplanes. All to hunt down a very dangerous British-turned-Soviet double-agent. Posing as an art dealer, this Soviet spy begins killing off important figures of Parliament... and that's when Spy Seal is put on the case! What is the reasoning behind this double-agent's terrorist actions? Why are three masked bunnies vandalizing paintings in every gallery across Europe? And just what is this mysterious and elusive Corten-Steel Phoenix anyway? This Hardcover is limited to a single printing! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, full color. Teen Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Carlos Gonzalez. Welcome to the club. A comic book potpourri collecting over a decade of fever dreams, lost highways, and psycho-sexual noir. If you can't get enough of crudely drawn mutilation fables, open this door. Then you can get back to your jazz albums and drinking. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 256 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

1st printing.

Art and cover by Farel Dalrymple.

A series of watercolor and ink drawings by award winning illustrator Farel Dalrymple (Pop Gun War, Mind MGMT), done one a day for the year of 2020. Each of the over 366 illustrations was created using all traditional materials with no digital manipulation. Different themes in the book include a robot Tod alphabet, a complete tarot deck and a variety of fictional and nonfictional characters.

Softcover, 80 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $20.00.

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1st printing. Written by Bob Black. Art and cover by Bruno Borges. THE ABOLITION OF WORK, a well-know essay written by the anarchist Bob Black in 1985, appears now in a comics edition by Bruno Borges. His expressive cartoons reinforce the strength and pertinence of this groundbreaking text. Softcover, 80 pages, full color. Cover price $15.00.

1st printing.

Cover by Mike O'Brien.

A benefit edition of Bartkira that collects a narrative sequence of massive destruction from Akira re-interpreted through the bug-eyed lens of The Simpsons. Proceeds from this book are being split between two charities, OISCA Coastal Forest Restoration Project in Miyagi Prefecture and Save the Children. A Floating World production.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 12-in., 80 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Back in the early 1990s, when anime was still called Japanimation and The Simpsons still featured Phil Hartman, no one could have conceived of the concept of Bartkira. Yet 23 years later, in Neo-Britain, artist Ryan Humphrey gave life to the unimaginable. His pages for the mind-bending crossover comic ignited a fire in the mind of comic artist James Harvey, who proposed the impossible: Recreate every page of Akira using characters from The Simpsons.

It would take 768 artists, each contributing five pages, to redraw the full six volumes of Katsuhiro Otomos masterwork. A monumental group comic project unlike any other inspired working illustrators, comics professionals, and even some who had never drawn a comic in their lives. Now for the first time, the project that some have heralded as the greatest thing to ever happen to the Internet is here to destroy Floating World Comics. Floating World is proud to present an exhibition book collecting 80 pages from the Bartkira project as well as a 16 page full color gallery section. This exhibition book is only a small curated sampling of the larger project, and should not be confused as representative of the 6 volume project that James Harvey will be posting online in 2014-15.

Featuring contributions by 19 artists: James Harvey, Danny Hynes, Marcel OLeary, Michael Kim, Erica Henderson, Jacob Chabot, Cameron Stewart, Ben Ommundson, Brenton Barnes, Luke Novel, Richie Pope, Jon Huddleston, Jason Rainey, Cory Tran, Bodie Chewning, Alchemichael, Frans Boukas, Tyler Patrick Boss, and Ben Jelter. The full color gallery section includes illustrations by Wyatt Carroll, Jeremy Arambulo, Areil Vergez, Jaime Munoz, Alexandre Ghostthead, Rawn Gandy, Nick Sumida, and Ryan Humphrey. This exhibition book was curated by Frans Boukas with design assistance from Matt Deans.

Bartkira is intended to be a fan tribute to Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Matt Groening's The Simpsons. This project is not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, either creator and does not represent itself as an official publication of any kind. All characters and location depicted herein remain the trademarked possessions of Otomo and Groening.

Softcover, 96 pages, PC/PB&W.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Story and Art by Tadao Tsuge.

Serialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo.

Based loosely on the artist's own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son!

Softcover, 6-in., x 8-in., 324 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Teddy Goldenberg.

City Crime Comics is Teddy Goldenberg's funny and nightmarish, 1950's Golden Age noir and romance style stories. The 21 stories take place in a strange city where people randomly disappear and reappear, become lost or confused, or turn into signs or statues.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, full color.

Cover price $15.00.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Daria Tessler.

This exquisite and mostly-silent graphic novel takes place in a fantasy cityscape loosely inspired by German expressionist films. Cult of the Ibis tells the story of an occultist getaway-driver who, after escaping with the loot from a bank robbery gone wrong, orders a build-you-own-homunculus kit and goes on the lam. Steeped in architecture and atmosphere, Tessler's gorgeous cartooning fuels this strangely gripping yarn, which is packaged in a gorgeous hardcover design.

Softcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 212 pages, B&W.

Cover price $29.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Jon-Michael Frank.

Esther, a body builder, and Mona, a butterfly, embark on a strange voyage for an elusive elixir to restore their lost powers. During their travels, they encounter a wide variety of characters, including a woman who is endlessly working to interpret the shape of the sun, a romantic creature named Poef who can't figure out how to make someone love them, a shapeshifting squire and a mysterious creature who steals their prized cache of essential oils. Frustratingly though, each character they meet introduces a new task for them to finish, further distancing them from their initial quest of seeking more elixir.

While the world they venture into is often surreal, it's always refreshingly relatable to anyone who struggles with the tragedies and comedies of their own screwball heart.

Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 104 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.95.

(W) Tom Herpich (A) Tom Herpich (CA) Tom Herpich A day in the life of the author becomes a meditation on round trips, both physical and psychological, shining a light on the joy of boredom, the magic of repetition, and the beauty of solitude. From Tom Herpich, an Emmy Award winning writer/storyboard artist who has worked on: Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, Steven Universe, and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Cover price $8.00.

Story and art by Bob Nunn.

Welcome to the bizarro world of Robert Nunn, a welder from Missouri whose 70s self-published comics Earthman & Torch have been rediscovered as outsider art. Born of wholesome comics strips by way of Satanic Panic tracts, this pairing mashes vampire space horror with the adventures of an evangelical scare-mongering superhero.

64 pages, full color.

Cover price $7.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Carlos Gonzalez. Feel the groping confusion of heroes and villains alike as they navigate a detached and smog ridden future propagated by countless vapid hologram simulations. When a middle aged alcoholic stumbles upon a console that jacks him into a long shuttered digital swampscape, he sees a fragment of beauty in a vast bog of unknowns. Will he be able to hold on to it or be engulfed in chaos? You'll be able to smell the burning ozone and hear the low level hum of advanced cybernetics when you read Carlos Gonzalez's mind bending cyberpunk saga, Everglide! Softcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 344 pages, PC. Mature Readers Cover price $29.99.

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1st printing. Art and cover by Chris Cilla. FEAST OF GREASE is the latest collection of psychedelic comix artwork by cult cartoonist Chris Cajero Cilla. Including work from Kramers Ergot, Studygroup Comics, and Vision Quest, gathered together in these pages for an all-you-can-eat album of mind melting comics. Journey from outer space to the dumpster behind a liquor store! Spend time with funny animals, freaky humans, ghosts, dirty cops, and other creatures in a world full of chicken fat & junkyard poetry, cartoon daydreams and nightmares. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 112 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

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"The Trail of the Century" 6 1/2-in. x 10-in., 24 pages, B/W (Some Color). Cover price $2.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by S Craig Zahler.

After three startling, award-winning movies that have played around the world and been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, S. Craig Zahler wanted to return to his first artistic passion - illustration. He committed himself to writing, drawing, inking, and lettering his graphic novel debut, a full-length work of noir horror.

Homeless people are disappearing in New Bastion, and occasionally, a dismantled corpse turns up in a dumpster. These crimes are left alone, until the day a comatose woman named Lillian Driscoll is kidnapped from the hospital. Her brothers - a grumpy detective named Leo and a slick mobster named Tommy - seek answers that lead them to darkness, arcane medicine, and pain.

Softcover, 104 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $15.95.