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May 4, 2016
May 3, 2016
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/4/16 — Our Sacrifice!) | The Comics Journal
Micro-review of RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER at The Comics Journal in their weekly new release roundup. Speaking of which, I do believe this book will appear in better comic stores tomorrow!
Rules for Dating My Daughter: Mike Dawson, the host of our own TCJ Talkies podcast and the author of graphic novels such as Troop 142 and Angie Bongiolatti, makes what I believe is his debut publication under the Uncivilized Books imprint with this collection of comic stories and essays exploring Dawson’s fears and misgivings about gun owners, exposing his children to Disney-brand ideological propaganda, and other patriarchal burdens of responsibility. Many of these stories first appeared online, and a few generated some discussion. Dawson seems to be trying something genuinely difficult in his work: to portray (or authorially manifest) well-rounded, rational decency, a goal not often earnestly attempted in comics, much less achieved. This is straight-up sincere-and-sensitive suburban-dad stuff, but not unconsciously (or unashamedly) so.
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smallpresspreviews:
FREE 2016
by Max Baitinger, Berliac, Tim...
FREE 2016
by Max Baitinger, Berliac, Tim Bird, Tara Booth, Leela Corman, Eleanor Davis, Paloma Dawkins, Mike Dawson, Luke J. Halsall, Liva Kandevica, Kickily, Mathilde Kitteh, James Kochalka, Jesse McManus, Ricky Miller, Simon Moreton, Roman Muradov, Maré Odomo, Luca Oliveri, Owen D. Pomery, Donya Todd, Tillie Walden
Cover by Patrick Crotty
Published by Retrofit Comics / Big Planet Comics
Co-published with Avery Hill Publishing / kuš! komiksi / Peow! Studio / Uncivilized Books
Our newest comics sampler for 2016, with our international friends! Avery Hill (the UK), kuš (Latvia), Peow! (Sweden), and Uncivilized (USA). Included FREE with our print subscription!
40 pages (8 color, 32 black and white), 6.625 inches by 10.1875 inches (168mm by 259mm)
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Debuting on Free Comic Book Day, 7 May 2016
Available for free at participating comic book stores:
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Big Planet Comics bigplanetcomics
Birdcage Bottom Books birdcagebottombooks
Brainfreeze brainfreeze
Chicago Comics chicagocomics
Copacetic Comics copcomco
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Green Brain Comics greenbraincomics
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Mission Comics missioncomics
Peow! Studio peowstudio
Pikitia Press pikitiapress
Secret Headquarters thesecretheadquarters
Strange Adventures Strange Adventures
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Titan Games & Comics titangamesandcomics.com
Vault of MIdnight vaultofmidnight
This is a super-cool thing that these publishers do - keep an eye out for this one.
April 25, 2016
April 22, 2016
“I can only accept it for about one second a...
“I can only accept it for about one second a day”
Happy Earth Day Everyone! No “holiday” on the calendar depresses me more, because it’s the one day a year our ongoing climate catastrophe gets brought up in the elementary schools, but always couched in a “take care of the planet by turning out the lights and recycling your soda cans” feel-good kind of way.
I say it depresses me, but what’s the alternative? I’m grown and I can barely manage to wrap my mind around the scale of what’s happening to the planet - do I really think kids need more exposure to this existential dread? No. No I don’t.
April 21, 2016
If yr the sort of person who values a high quantity of work...
If yr the sort of person who values a high quantity of work produced, then a photo like this is some pretty decent “page-count porn”
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