Linda Medley's Eisner-winning series CASTLE WAITING has delighted fans with its affectionate portrayal of the odd inhabitants of an old castle, in a rich, storybook fantasy positioned midway between Mother Goose and J. R. Tolkein.
What makes this series special is Linda Medley's solid, uncluttered style, her subtle storytelling skills, and her emphasis on character development. With in-depth experience as a children's book illustrator, Medley brings a fresh sensibility to the comics medium.
After Medley's own imprint Olio suspended publication, she recently moved the series to Jeff Smith's company, Cartoon Books (Box 16973, Columbus, OH 43216 www.boneville.com). We wish her the best of luck in this promising new arrangement, and recommend this series highly!
Smile Comics SPACE DOG Daniel Sargent's elaborate Sf saga about a dog-like space traveler! Smile Comics 480 Crestwood Dr. Athens, GA 30605 ______________________________________________ TFR Industries TEN FOOT RULE #5 An energetic digestzine anthology by Shawn Granton! See Amazing Montage review from April! MODERN INDUSTRY An 11-creator anthology edited by Granton! Promising new talents galore! TFR Industries 170 Beaver St., Ansonia, CT 06401 ______________________________________________ Horizontal Comics RAT Pt. 1 & 2 Rich Watson's allegory about a rat who falls in love with a human girl! Horizontal Comics 172-32 133 AVe #11A, Jamaica, NY 11434 ______________________________________________ M. R. Neno Productions QUACKY PIG AND FRIENDS Michael Neno gleefully warps the last remaining institution of children's literature in the world today-- the children's coloring book! M. R. Neno Productions P. O. Box 151303 Columbus, OH 43215 ______________________________________________ Kevin Huizenga SUPERMONSTER 12 What's monstrous in this thick minicomic is artist Kevin Huizenga's innovative, unpredict- able talent! Kevin Huizenga P. O. Box 58 Griffith, IN 46319 www.calvin.edu/~lhuize99 ______________________________________________ Ben T. Steckler GET BENT #6/UNSHAVEN CHI #2 Steckler insanity at its most schizophrenic! Ben T. Steckler POB 7273 York, PA 17404 ______________________________________________ J. Kevin Carrier LADY SPECTRA AND SPARKY VOL. 1 J. Kevin Carrier's charming superhero spoof looks fantastic in this trade paperback collection! J. Kevin Carrier 8913 Eldora Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45236
A Silent Comics
ARSENIC LULLABY #10
Harvey-nominated depraved sick humor!
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AAA Pop Comics
ATOMICS #7
Mike Allred!
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Aardvark Vanaheim
CEREBUS #256
Dave Sim!
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Abiogenesis
STRANGEHAVEN VOL. 2 BROTHERHOOD TP
Gary Spencer Millidge's atmospheric comedy/
drama with a macabre edge; collecting #7
thru #12!
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Abisimo
PABLO'S INFERNO #4
Rhode Motijo's saga of a child's journey
through a nightmarish Aztec underworld!
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Adept Books
SCHOOL GIRLS: SHELLY'S STORY #1
Leland Myrick and Mark Das Santos team for
this series about high-school life!
SWEET COLLECTION TP
Leland Myrick's Ignatz-nominated series
collected!
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AFC Studio
BEGINNING OF THE END #2
Robert Scott and Albert Silva Jr. SF
conspiracy thriller!
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AI LAI Q Productions L.L.C.
RES PUBLICA: THE NATION OF SPACE #3
Dan Kennedy & Jake Minor's space-age thriller!
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Amaze Ink/Slave Labor
MISTER BLANK TP
Christopher Hicks SF series collected!
SPOOK GIRL #3
Mick Macropoulos's comedy about mechanical
mayhem!
TAXIDERMY #1
Roman Dirge's taxidermy chill fest is in
full color!
BABYSITTER #1
Andy Ristaino's send-up of manga and
japanimation high-school adventures!
CHARM SCHOOL #2
Elizabeth Watasin's coven comedy!
LITTLE GLOOMY #4
Landry Walker & Eric Jones!
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Arrow Comics
LAND OF OZ #11
Bishop, Bryan, and Mesner-Loebs!
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Asta Graphics
SALEM ST. JAMES ILLUSIONS OF THE PAST #1
Lou Manna's new series about a magician
turned private eye!
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Behemoth Books
BRAINBOMB SC
The national outreach program Cartoonists in
the Classroom produced this 288 page anthology
with work by Brian Clopper, Mile Manley, Scott
Morse, Jay Hosler, Lea Hernandez, Jenni Gregory,
and others!
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Black Daze
BALLAD OF UTOPIA #5
Barry Buchanan and Mike Hoffman's
outstanding, offbeat western series
continues!
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Bryce Alan Publishing
FASHION POLICE #3
Penn, Manley, & Zubiaga!
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Caliber Entertainment
SHERLOCK HOLMES READER #4
WITNESS TO WAR #1
Chuck Bordell's WWII series features a female
frontline reporter!
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Cartoon Books
CASTLE WAITING VOL. 2 #1
Linda Medley's multiple Eisner-winning series
continues! See featured comics above!
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Claypool Comics
ELVIRA #87
AND ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK TP!
Relevant social criticism at its most trenchant!
SOULSEARCHERS #43
Peter David, Dave Cockrum, Marie Severin!
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Comics Library International
COMICS LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL VOL 4
Forty Winks, Mr. Beat, Magic Inkwell, and
many others in this 152-page collection!
THE COMPLETE MR. BEAT TP
Can you beat that! Chris Yambar's baret-
sportin' daddyo hips it up between java
gulps!
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Crazyfish/MJ-12
Where the heck do they get these publisher
names?!? This returning publisher looks
promising, anyway...
CUT MY HAIR
Jamie S. Rich's punk graphic novel illo'd
by Andi Watson, Scott Morse, Renee French
and others!
SMACK DAB TP
Collection of Scott Morse short stories
from various other anthologies!
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Cremo Studios C/O Shel-tone
C'mon, where DO they get these names?!?
AW SHUCKS SUSPENSE STORIES
Michael H. Price's anthology of stories
in the Southern Gothic tradition!
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Dancing Elephant Press
KANE #30
Paul Grist!
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Drawn & Quarterly
MADAME PAUL AFFAIR
Julie Doucet's tale about a strange apartment
house!
CLYDE FANS PART ONE TP
Collecting Seth's Palooka-ville 10-12!
LOUIS RIEL PACK
Issues 1-3 of Chester Brown's 2000 Harvey Award
nominated series! If you missed it, now's
your chance!
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Eddie Campbell Comics
EDDIE CAMPBELL'S BACCHUS #53
Eddie Campbell!
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Eric Theriault Press
106U
90-page wordless international anthology!
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Fantagraphic Books
FRANK TP
Jim Woodring collection!
MEAT CAKE #10
Dame Darcy's neo-Victorian decadent comedy!
NAUGHTY BITS #32
Roberta Gregory's feminist comedy!
NIMROD #5
Lewis Trodheim relates history of universe!
PRINCE VALIENT VOL. 40
Reprinting Hal Foster's classic strip!
WEASEL #3
Dave Cooper!
ZERO ZERO #27
The title says it all (just kidding!) in this
durable anthology with Kim Deitch, Mack White,
Chris Ware, David Mazzucchelli and others!
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Funk-o-tron, LLC
BATTLE POPE #2
Sacred religious figures roll up their sleeves
for a battle to the death in this satirical
sacriligious saga!
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Gettosake Comics
SAY WHAT?! #1
Maurice Love's comedy is billed as being
'in the tradition of Fat Albert and Friday!'
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Highwater Books
SLOW JAMS
If you missed it before, here's your chance
to pick up David Choe's groundbreaking graphic
novel-- highly recommended!
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Horse Press
THB 6: MEK-POWER #1
Finally Paul Pope continues his popular
THB series!
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Humanoids Publishing
METABARONS #7
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez!
WHITE LAMA VOL. 3 THREE EARS HC
Jodorowsky & George Bess!
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Insight Studios Group
LIBERTY MEADOWS #12
Frank Cho!
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Ironcat Comics
FUTABA-KUN CHANGE VOL. 5 #1
Maybe a good jumping-on point for this odd
manga series about a character who changes
gender!
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Kenzer & Company
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #45
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE HACKMASTERS #2
War-gamer satire!
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Lightspeed Press
FINDER #18
Carla Speed McNeil's colorful SF series
continues!
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Luxurious Press
BOSWASH
Nick Bertozzi's Xeric-grant experimental comic
is printed in folded map format!
QUEEN'S DAY
Leela Corman's Xeric-grant anthology of women's
tales!
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NBM
MIND'S EYE: AN EYE OF THE BEHOLDER COLLECTION
also EYE OF THE BEHOLDER-- NEW EDITION
Peter Kuper!
CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL EATER #2
Anthology by Savannah College of Art & Design!
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Oni Press
THE BLAIR WITCH CHRONICLES #4
More unstoppable horror as a once-proud artform
spirals downward into painful mediocrity! Will
dawn never come?
STUPID COMICS
Jim Mahfood!
SOULWIND III: THE INFAMOUS TRANSIT VAGRANTS
Scott Morse!
ONI PRESS SUMMER VACATION SUPERCOLOR FUN
SPECIAL
All the Oni characters co-exist in cross-over
from hell! (Alternate title: Blair Witch
Chronicles #5)
FORTUNE AND GLORY: A TRUE HOLLYWOOD COMIC BOOK
STORY TP
Collecting Brian Michael Bendis's Hollywood
adventures!
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Radio Comics
FURRLOUGH #91
and HIT THE BEACH 2000 (#7)
Anthropomorphic anthologies!
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Sirius Entertainment
AKIKO #40
Mark Crilley!
POE #24
Jason Asala!
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Third Wind Press
ARMS LENGTH #1
Mark Price's Xeric grant-winning story about
a struggling comedian who meets Bob Hope!
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Top Shelf Productions
FLIPPER VOLUME 1 & 2
Israeli art collective Actus Tragicus
produced these high-quality flip books
that promise to be memorable works
of comic art!
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Twomorrows Publishing
STREETWISE TP
What anthology puts Herb Trimpe and Art
Spiegelman together at last? It's this
unusual book, which contains autobio-
graphical stories by mainstream comics
talents like Joe Kubert, Brent Anderson
and Walt Simonson! Includes a 10-page Jack
Kirby piece!
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Viz Communications
PULP VOL 4 #8
The manga-noir anthology, now with more
pages for the same price (184 p. for $5.95!)
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Non-independent Comics Published by Huge
Bloated Monoliths of Anti-Human Savagery
DARK HORSE MAVERICK 2000 (Dark Horse)
C. Scott Morse, Brian Ralph, and HICKSVILLE'S
Dylan Horrocks in this annual anthology!
WHAT'S MICHAEL? (Dark Horse)
Makoto Kobayashi's full-color manga all-ages
comic about giant cats!
GON ON SAFARI (DC)
More of Masashi Tanaka's marvelous tales about
a diminutive dinosaur!