Exhibitors
Oliver East
Oliver East is the creator of Trains Are…Mint, Proper Go Well High and Berlin And That, all published by Blank Slate Books. He lives and works in Manchester, UK with his Clare and his Hunter.
Debuting Books
Everything Takes Forever
Manhattan-born and based Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever is a collection of the cartoonist and illustrator’s ink-and-wash comics that blur the quotidian with the absurd. In Kerlow’s world tacos and toast have bodies and smoke, tiny men who can no longer copulate or consume sandwiches deal with existential angst, and dream logic …read more
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Very Casual
Culled from mini comics, online comics and anthology contributions, Very Casual collects notable short stories from DeForge’s prolific oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forest-bound drag queens. Very Casual also collects Spotting Deer, which won the Pigskin Peters Award for best non-traditional, non-narrative or avant-garde work at …read more
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Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories
New and collected stories about life, death, love, ghosts, cats, time travel, humans, literature, fear, magic, evil organizations, happiness, television, secrets, dogs, loneliness, house plants, ancient dark rituals, pizza, failure, power, money, nature, government conspiracies, regret, the internet, horrifying monsters, awful jobs, wizards, the ocean, aliens, dads, kissing, crying and …read more
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Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely …read more
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Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
You wouldn’t expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie’s the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely—until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders. At stake is funding that will either cover a robotics …read more
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The Library
To debut the new Conundrum International Imprint, The Library is the first English edition of Chihoi, a young Hong Kong artist, who has had books published in Chinese, Italian and French. Reading the short stories included in this volume is like reading someone else’s dreams. “The Library” or “Father” reminds one of Kafka; …read more
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MERE
In 2012, Providence-based artist and musician C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex — all of them infused throughout …read more
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Sunny Volume 1
The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet. What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of an orphanage, the children who live …read more
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Frontier #1
Frontier #1: Uno Moralez, features 32 pages of mysterious, creepy, and beautiful work by Russian illustrator and GIF artist Uno Moralez. This book marks Uno Moralez’s first North American release, presenting a mesmerizing collection of his pixel illustration and animated GIFs in a tactile, colorful monograph. To accompany the issue, …read more
[close]Upcoming Events
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Rutu Modan’s THE PROPERTY: Special Presentation
Sunday, May 12, 2013 -
Benign Kingdom Presents: TCAFête 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013 -
The Doug Wright Awards
Saturday, May 11, 2013 -
TCAF Queer Mixer: Featuring Tagame & Vellekoop!
Saturday, May 11, 2013
