Edie Fake lives in Chicago. His work has appeared in Gay Genius, Thickness and Monster. Gaylord Phoenix, his first book, won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel in 2011. He works as a minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s books.
When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter “Pirate King” Gabriele d’Annunzio, an Italian poet who stormed the city with 3,000 Italian nationalists. D’Annunzio declared Fiume a free republic and himself commander. He envisioned a …read more
[close]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
[close]The full-color, completely remastered, utterly astounding republication of the Scott Pilgrim epic continues! This new 6″x9″ hardcover presents Scott’s run-in with Ramona ex, Envy boy toy, and The Clash at Demon Head with bassist Todd Ingram as you’ve never seen it before – in full-color! Plus, previously unpublished extras, hard-to-find …read more
[close]Early morning on a perfect summer’s day, people begin to descend on an idyllic, secluded beach. Amongst their number, a family, a young couple, a refugee and some American tourists. Its fine white sand is fringed with rock pools filled with crystal clear water. The beach is sheltered from prying …read more
[close]Using a grid of 9 panels over 40 wordless pages, Carlos Santos imagines multiple narratives driven by the power of the unconscious. With precise and accomplished images, Santos has created an experimental tour de force rarely seen in comics. “Carlos Santos creates strips in a manner that is essentially intuitive. …read more
[close]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
[close]Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there’s nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, …read more
[close]Translated by Edward Gauvin Cover design by David Mazzucchelli What are the movies? What effect do they have on us? Why do we love them so much? Blutch addresses all these questions in a series of interlocking short comics that move between scholarly history, romantic theory and ribald vignettes, featuring …read more
[close]A collection of wordless comic strips originally published on the artist’s blog. Machine Gum features the manic trials and mishaps of an unfortunate robot beset by a frenzy of transformation, mutation, and unsympathetic providence.
[close]SUPERMAG is Jim Rugg’s latest print project… a glossy, magazine-format collection of “narrative collapse.” It showcases his interests in genre, irreverent humor, graphic design, drawing, and typography. SUPERMAG features new work as well as collecting the best of his recent anthology contributions.
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The Doug Wright Awards
TCAF Queer Mixer: Featuring Tagame & Vellekoop!
