Here’s my synopsis of the first issue of Max de Radiguès’s “Moose” minicomic series (spoiler alert): running, climbing, falling, puking. It’s great! Get it and lots of other essentials here.
Woop, it’s the latest issue (#16!) of Josh Blair’s long-running minicomic anthology Candy or Medicine, this one with a fantastic cover illustration by Emi Gennis, who is editing an anthology for Hic & Hoc due out late this year! The other picture is from a crazy contribution by Nate McDonough.
If you like Levon Jihanian’s Danger Country, you’ll also enjoy Evan Palmer and Anna Bongiovanni’s The Feast, where some forest-dwellers with absurd names like Loogie Ball and Gigglespeak do battle with an big ugly dude.
There are only 20 copies of Ian Andersen’s Mouse Made so you’d be a damn fool if you didn’t go buy one now. I think that’s Hic and Hoc hiding on the inside back cover there. As you can see, as much as I enjoyed this, Peyton did not.
Madeleine Bliss’s Scepter Gem: Magic Universe Part 1 tells the tale of a boy (?) named Avl who studies Trans-Planetary Mineralogy until he is summoned by the God of All the Cosmos to retrieve the missing Scepter Gem. Need I say more? Well, yes, a little more: there is also an evil alien blubber queen who bears an uncanny resemblance to Barbamama.
Mailbag time. Today I received all five issues of Laura Knetzger’s Bug Boys. The woodcut-style covers look pretty darn awesome.
Issue two of Veggie Dog Saturn chronicles Jason Young’s one-night stint as a limo driver and is the best long form autobio comic I’ve read in a long time.
Caitlin Cass keeps outdoing herself with her amazing Great Moments in Western Civilization series. This one is about Vladimir Nabokov’s obsession with butterflies and is just fucking amazing. Check out Caitlin’s fantastic lettering in the poor quality photograph.
Oh holy crud! It’s the latest issue of my favorite subscription minicomic, Great Moments in Western Civilization, and it’s (a) in color and (b) about Vladimir Nabokov! Caitlin Cass is the best!
