Here’s a listing of the books that will be debuting this Saturday at the first Comic Arts Brooklyn festival. Information has been supplied by the exhibitors and hopefully something here will pique your interest. If you don’t find something to pique your interest, you don’t really like comics.
Because of the volume of submissions this year I’m breaking this up into a few different posts to conserve server strength.
Jon Pham
EPOXY 4
A handmade, 3-color risograph anthology comic featuring a new episode of the Deep Space serial, plus the debut of J&K, a funny little minicomic insert about 2 best friends’ search for free taquitos.
John Pham
Self-Published, $12
FUNNY CHARACTERS
Various portraits of characters from the J&K world, hand printed on a risograph. Also, cheap.
John Pham
Self-Published, $3
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<h3>Crepuscular Archives</h3>
THE DORMITORY
BABES
40 pg. Xerox zine symmetrically celebrating the many iterations of the female figure.
By Maire Witt O’Neill
Table D22
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Patrick Kyle
7 x 10, 52 pages, Risograph print on Pink, Orchid and Goldenrod Paper.
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<h3>Lale Westvind</h3>
Express Less #1,
by Lale Westvind.
28 full color pages of phantom sci-fi psychopathia sexualis!
Self-published.
$7.00
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First Second
The Cute Girl Network
By Greg Means, MK Reed, and Joe Flood
First Second Books / $17.99
Jane’s new in town. When she wipes out on her skateboard right in front of Jack’s food cart, she finds herself agreeing to go on a date with him. Jane’s psyched that her love life is taking a turn for the friskier, but it turns out that Jack has a spotty romantic history, to put it mildly. Cue the Cute Girl Network — a phone tree information-pooling group of local single women. Poor Jane is about to learn every detail of Jack’s past misadventures… whether she wants to or not. Will love prevail?
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Patrick Kyls
New Comics #2 by Patrick Kyle
4 New Comics + Drawings by Patrick Kyle.
7 x 10, 52 pages, Risograph print on Pink, Orchid and Goldenrod Paper.
$8
Published by Mother Books
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Ines Estrada
Borrowed Tails
by Inés Estrada
A collection of short comics based on overheard stories and imagined anecdotes. Intimate and feminine, in the most wild and unabashed sense, her acid watercolors transform the mundane into the magic.
Kuš! Komiksi, $5
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PictureBox
INFOMANIACS
Matthew Thurber
INFOMANIACS is a graphic novel printed on paper all about the Internet. A hilarious detective story that manages to critique and explore digital culture,INFOMANIACS is marked by the author’s restless questioning and heightened sense of the absurd. With the iconic Amy Shit as his Philip Marlow, Thurber looks in on “The Scriveners of Tweet Street”, Albert Radar, a Joseph Beuys-lookalike psychiatrist, a perfectly preserved brain that has never seen the internet, an organic server farm, the Anthropamorphic Task Force, and so much more. But all of this is in service to a tightly plotted thriller. Think of it as The Long Goodbye for the Tumblr generation.
PictureBox, $22.95
The Mysterious Underground Men
Osamu Tezuka
Originally published in 1948, The Mysterious Underground Men tells the story of Mimio the talking rabbit, as he struggles to prove his humanity while helping his friends save earth from an invasion of angry humanoid ants. While Tezuka’s New Treasure Island (1946-47) was the first major hit for the “god of manga,” the artist himself regarded this later book the first of his signature “story manga. Inspired by Bernhard Kellermann’s Der Tunnel (1913) and drawing widely on European and American science fiction, as well as Milt Gross’ own pioneering “graphic novel,” He Done Her Wrong (1930), this full-color edition of The Mysterious Underground Men will not only introduce to English-language readers a founding monument in modern Japanese comics. It will also offer a rare glimpse at the wide-ranging Western cultural sources that made up young Tezuka’s world.
PictureBox, $24.95
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Koyama Press
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Matt Huynh
MA
A young family displaced by the Vietnam War in 1978 encounter surprising pockets of private romance, tenderness and silliness in Malaysia’s Pulau Bidong refugee camps whilst awaiting news from home and of their uncertain future. Silk-screened cover, 60pp, 7 x 10″.
$9.99
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Hangdai Editions
A brand new publishing concern launches at CAB with some familiar names:
HANG DAI Editions was founded in Brooklyn, NY by Gregory Benton, Dean Haspiel, and Seth Kushner over their mutual dedication to comix art. The imprint focuses on limited edition comix, graphic novels, and art books, with an emphasis on personal interaction at events, conventions, and signings.
The three principals each have long histories with traditional publishing venues and have now decided to take on the challenge of publishing independently, under the HANG DAI Editions imprint, in order to retain full ownership and control over select personal creations.
The HANG DAI Editions line will debut at Comic Arts Brooklyn on November 9, 2013 with three limited edition comic books. Benton unveils his man vs. nature tale, FORCE OF NATURE, Haspiel brings forth his one-man anthology, PSYCHOTRONIC COMIX, and Kushner collects three shorts from his autobio web-series in SCHMUCK COMIX.
The three New York City based creators, who share a studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn, plan to evolve the line into self-financed and crowd funded hardcover books, and are actively seeking distributors with which to partner.
HANG DAI Editions – creator owned, independently-produced signature works.
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Twitter: @hangdai_comix
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Conundrum Press
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Enchanted Lion Books
BALLAD by Blexbolex
Ballad is a story about telling stories by the French graphic artist, Blexbolex. It’s also a story in which a spell is cast, a spell which falls over the reader as well.
The book has just been selected as one of the Ten Best Illustrated Books of 2013 by The New York Times Books Review.
$22.95 ISBN 978-1-59270-137-3 280pp 5 5/8″ X 6 1/2″ hc
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Burger Books/Records
Wartella’s STRIP SHOW: 25 Years of Comix, Controversy & Copyright Infringement
Retrospective memoir from NYC cult-cartoonist M. Wartella (Village VOICE, MAD) featuring long-out-of-print newspaper cartoons from the 90s and beyond. After previewing a limited-edition hardcover at SXSW, Burger Records will now debut the mass-market paperback edition at this year’s Comic Arts Brooklyn fest.
BURGER RECORDS / BURGER BOOKS, 100 pages, $30
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