Dave Cooper's latest anthology series is a watershed in this young artist's career. It pushes his bizaare/friendly style into exciting, innovative directions that may well kick-start the next trend in comix-nouveau!
Issue 1 began 'Ripple, a Predilection for Tina,' an auto-biographical tale about an artist obsessed with his homely model. Rounding out the issue were an excerpt from an alien encyclopedia (with incomprehensible alien text!), a surrealistic short about conceptual artists, and a beautiful duotone sketchbook. Post-modern cartoonist Patrick McEown contributed a paradoxical action thriller.
What makes Weasel a standout is the freshness of the images and the artist's versatility. Whether toiling over quasi-realistic grotesque renderings, intricate cross-sections of interstellar plant life, or a free-form walking toaster hallucination, Cooper will astound you!
Rachel Hartman AMY UNBOUNDED Now up to issue 9, this outstanding series of digestzines have the best storytelling and the funniest, most endearing character in comics!! Rachel Hartman 5464 S. Harper #2D, Chicago, IL 60615Visit the Amy Unbounded Website!
-------------------------------- R. Lootine RESIDUE COMICS Now up to issue 5, R. Lootine's collection of daily strips feature humor with a decidedly leftist flavor! Yum Yum! R. Lootine P. O. Box 580848 Minneapolis, MN 55458 -------------------------------- Ped Xing Productions PED XING Androo Robinson's series of comics are one-of-a-kind masterpieces. He's especially strong with moral fables, such as 'Kindness,' the story of a budding friendship between two social rejects! Androo Robinson 2000 NE 42 Ave. Suite 302 Portland, OR 97213-1305
Aardvark-Vanaheim CEREBUS #249 Dave Sim. -------------------------------- Abstract Studios STRANGERS IN PARADISE VOL3 #29 Terry Moore. -------------------------------- ACG GREAT DETECTIVE #2 STARRING SHERLOCK HOLMES Dan Day and Frank Giacoia! DEVIL'S BRIGADE #1 WWII saga by Wille Franz and Sam Glanzman! -------------------------------- Aero Comics LOST ONES #2 SF adventure by Ken Penders -------------------------------- Amaze Ink/Slave Labor GLOOM COOKIE #3 Serena Valentino & Ted Naifeh LENORE #7 Roman Dirge! RARE CREATURE #1 Boy-next-door romance becomes a descent into a freakish underworld in Kelley Seda mini-series! THE YEARNING GRAPHIC NOVEL Newcomer Dean Chiang visualizes the daydreams of an imaginative, romantically inclined youngster in this 104-page tale! -------------------------------- Antarctic Press ALLEY OOP QUARTERLY #2 Jack Bender & Dave Graue! -------------------------------- Arrow Comics THE ROAD TO ZOMBIEOPOLIS #1 Side-splitting zombie antics by Coffman, McDeavitt, & Embry! -------------------------------- Cemetary Dance Publications GRAVE TALES #1 Horror anthology by Erik Wilson, others! -------------------------------- Comics Conspiracy OPERATOR 99 Conspiracy thriller in which telephone operator discovers a deadly secret about Ma Bell! John Bosco, Doug Miers! -------------------------------- Cup O' Tea Studios XENO'S ARROW #6 SF saga about an alien zoo! 'Starter pack' of 1-5 also available! -------------------------------- Drawn & Quarterly LOUIS RIEL #3 Chester Brown's historical saga! -------------------------------- East Willis Productions ZORCH! COMICS #1 Anthropomorphic anthology by Mike Kazaleh, (Captain Jack)! -------------------------------- Eddie Campbell comics EDDIE CAMPBELL'S BACCHUS #49 In spite of the title, this issue appears to be an anthology of Alex stories. -------------------------------- Exhibit A Press SUPERNATURAL LAW #25 Commemorating 20 years of Wolff and Byrd, this issue has a complete story and a special feature section! Batton Lash! -------------------------------- Fantagraphics Books BLACK HOLE #7 Charles Burns COMIX 2000 Mammoth (2000 pages) international collection of wordless comics from French publisher L'Association! EVIL EYE #5 Richard Sala! LUBA #4 Gilbert Hernandez! MEASLES #5 Edited by Gilbert Hernandez! SCHIZO #2 Ivan Brunetti! WEASEL #2 Dave Cooper's impressively weird anthology is Fantagraphic's most exciting debut since Acme Novelty Library! See featured comics! -------------------------------- Funny Valentine Press UNKNOWN QUANTITIES Benefit anthology for the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, with contributors including Alex Ross, Neil Gaiman, and Alan Moore! -------------------------------- Hemlock Park Press MISADVENTURES OF BREADMAN & DOUGHBOY #3 Superhero satire by Tucker, Gorski & Pelc! -------------------------------- Highwater Books SLOW JAMS Xeric recipient and Ignatz nominee David Choe with grim noir about romance and revenge! 80-page combo of reprints and new work, with 16 pages of full color! -------------------------------- Horse Press THB: MARS MIGHTIEST MEK #1 Paul Pope reintroduces his seminal 'cutie pie' teenager, HR Watson, in this all-new adventure! -------------------------------- I*Box Publishing THIEVES AND KINGS #30 Mark Oakley's ambitious fantasy saga! -------------------------------- Insight Studios Group LIBERTY MEADOWS #5 Double-Ignatz winning artist Frank Cho's collected daily strips, including color Sundays! -------------------------------- Kenzer & Company KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #38 Gamer satire! -------------------------------- Lethargic Comics International LETHARGIC LAD #13 Greg Hyland's superhero satire takes aim at The Phantom Menace! -------------------------------- Lightspeed Press FINDER #15 Carla Speed McNeil's profound SF series embarks on a new arc of interconnected stories! Don't miss it!! -------------------------------- Mighty Gremlin ELECTRIC GIRL #4 Michael Brennan's all-ages book about a teen with a preternatural spark! -------------------------------- Moonstone MOONSTONE MONSTERS: WEREWOLVES #1 Anthology of werewolf tales! -------------------------------- NBM WIND IN THE WILLOWS VOL. 3: THE GATES OF DAWN Full-color fable by Kenneth Graham & Michael Plessix! LOST GIRL Nabiel Kanan's tale of a young girl on a family vacation who meets a mysterous woman! MY WAR WITH BRIAN Anyone still sore at Ted Rall for his Village Voice rant about Art Spiegelman may get some perverse pleasure from Rall's account of being the victim of a high-school bully! -------------------------------- Oni Press FORTUNE & GLORY #1 Brian Michael Bendis' autobio account of his experience with Hollywood producers! JINGLE BELLE #2 Paul Dini & Stephen DeStefano VOLCANIC REVOLVER TP Collecting Scott Morse's noir saga! WHITEOUT: MELT #3 Greg Rucka & Steve Lieber's sequel to crime comics classic WHITEOUT! JENNY FINN #4 Mike Mignola, Troy Nixey! -------------------------------- Original Syndicate Press HOLY GHOST EL GATO Satire of masked wrestler movies! -------------------------------- Peregrine Arts & Entertainment FORTY WINKS FABLED PIRATE QUEEN OF SOUTH CHINA SEA #3 Vince Sneed & Billy Martinez! -------------------------------- Permanent Press PATTY CAKE CHRISTMAS COMPLETE EDITION TP Collecting Scott Roberts' all-ages stories! -------------------------------- Radio Comics UNIVERSE SO BIG #1 Thought-provoking SF by Brandon Graham! FURRLOUGH #84 Anthropomorphic anthology! -------------------------------- Rusted Pipe Through the Eye FABRICARI #3 SF tale about macho mechanics by Steve Harrison! -------------------------------- Sandburg Publishing JUPITER #5 Jason Sandberg's weird satire takes on the superhero genre! -------------------------------- Shanda Fantasy Arts MAGIC CARPET #2 HOLIDAY SPECIAL Anthropomorphic Christmas anthology! -------------------------------- Sharkbait Press PETE THE P.O.'D POSTAL WORKER'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #1 The letter-carrier who has issues gets to visit the North Pole! -------------------------------- Sirius Entertainment OH MY GOTH! TP Voltaire's sendup of the ebony trendoids! AKIKO #37 Mark Crilley! -------------------------------- Slab-O-Concrete WORMS 'The Longest Comic Strip in the World' is a benefit book for the Cartoon Arts Trust with script by Alan Moore and Garth Ennis and full-color art by John Bolton, Dave Gibbons, and a host of other stars! SPIRAL DREAMS Collecting Al Davison's dream studies! -------------------------------- Sunset Strips DETECTIVE CHRONICLES OF MAX FACCIONI #2 Hard-boiled noir with stylish, classical art! -------------------------------- Three Fingers Prints Publishing GEEKSVILLE #3 Rick Koslowski & Gary Sassaman! -------------------------------- Top Shelf Productions TOP SHELF: UNDER THE BIG TOP Cutting-edge anthology with Dylan Horrocks, others! -------------------------------- Viz Communications PULP VOLUME 4 #1 Manga-noir anthology! BLACK & WHITE #5 Penultimate chapter of Taiyo Matsumoto's noir about country and city life! ---and lots and lots of Pokemon! -------------------------------- Westhampton House BEST OF BITTERKOMIX Collection of Afrikaner cartoonists' portraits of post-Apartheid South Africa! SCHNITTE Julie Doucet sketchbook! -------------------------------- Wet Earth ADVENTURES OF EDGAR MUDD #1 & #2 Busch & Bilicic's full-color sagas about a downtrodden accountant! -------------------------------- Non-independent Comics Published by Gargantuan Corporations BRAVE OLD WORLD #1 (DC) Offbeat time-travel tale by William Messner-Loebs, with art by Guy Davis and others! I DIE AT MIDNIGHT (DC) Kyle Baker's new romantic saga! BLAZE OF GLORY (Marvel) It's been a hell's age since Marvel published anything but it's tired superhero line-- this 4-issue weekly limited series by John Ostrander explores the near-vanished Western genre, with cameos by Kid Colt, the Rawhide Kid, Two-Gun Kid, and the rest of Marvel's tired gunfighter line!