Alternative Comics: 73 books

Alternative Comics returns as a twice-yearly comic with more pages —showcasing the best indie, web and zine artists of today's underground. Cover art by Mike Bertino. Comics by Theo Ellsworth & Craig Thompson, Sam Alden, James Kochalka, Sam Henderson, Noah Van Sciver, Grant Snider, Alex Schubert, Andy Ristaino, and Allison Cole. Inkstuds interview with and comics by David Lasky.

My Friend Dahmer author Derf Backderf offers his third volume of True Stories, culled from his long-running alt-weekly comic strip, The City. This volume features stories from 1996 to 2001. Derf takes us back to the halcyon days of the 1990s with hilarious, sometimes troubling, always timeless stories fished from the crankcase oil that coalesces in the bottom of the American psyche.

The first Alternative Comics book by the creator of Super F*ckers is back in a new edition The predecessor to the author's popular American Elf diary comics Includes the entirety of Kochalka's 1997 book Paradise Sucks and an additional story featuring characters from that world.

"Like a well-designed game, Chainmail Bikini sets forth a straightforward premise and then challenges as it delights, capturing your imagination and before you know it, you’ll find yourself invested in it."—My Entertainment World"Whether you’re a hardcore gamer who wants to see stories by...

The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism is a comics anthology that asks: What do we really mean when we say, “I’m not a feminist, BUT…” or “I am 100% a feminist, BUT…” What do our great big “BUTs” say about where things stand between the sexes in...

Bones the bass player for the BugHouse jazz band flees indictment and heads to Mexico. In Mexico, he becomes bewitched by a sultry young bruja who also happens to sing R&B like a true diva. Jimmy Watts, genius tenor sax man for BugHouse, had his run-ins with the mob in his drug addict days. He's...

"Impressive stuff. Check it out."-Frank Santoro on Malachi Ward's Ritual Three: Vile Decay, The Comics Journal A collection of hauntingly beautiful science fiction and horror short stories by Prophet and Ritual artist Malachi Ward. Collects stories from Mome, Study Group Magazine,...

A collection of celebrated mini-comics from the early and mid-'90s by Tom Hart, creator of Hutch Owen and director of the Sequential Artists Workshop. Includes the classic self-published mini-comics Love Looks Left, The Angry Criminal, Maria, New Hat, Mañana, Heike, and more. Tom Hart is a...

Misnomer is the personal comics anthology of Reid Psaltis, collecting his smaller works under one title. Issue one includes the comics "Carry On, Carrion: A Crow Funeral," "The Malaise Trap" and a pin-up gallery featuring illustrations by Michael Manomivibul, Farel Dalrymple, Angela Rizza, Abby Diamond, Francois Vingeault and Ezra Butt.

Bernard, Dean, and Jorge look forward to some serious Frisbee-tossing and are psyched when Astrid shows up to swim, but Gabi is so freaked out she doesn't want to leave the car. Why is Gabi demanding they head home before dark? Maybe if anyone paid attention to her childhood tales of seaweed harvesting,...

Failure collects Karl Stevens's beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from the Boston Phoenix alternative weekly newspaper. His slice of life vignettes and surreal anthropomorphic experiments are revealing sketches of urban America and beyond. The follow up to his Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominated The Lodger.

Magic Whistle returns with a full color holiday special. Guest artists this issue include Corinne Halbert, Jen Sandwich, Barack Hussein Obama and Yikes creator Steve Weissman and the return to comics of legendary Trailer Trash creator Roy Tompkins Cover art by Drinky Crow creator Tony ‘Maakies’ Millionaire.

Schmuck drips with self-loathing, near-sightedness, and sexually frustrated Ashkenazi goodness. In Schmuck, Kushner tells "true" stories based on his own mishaps and mortifying memories, which are energetically illustrated by the cream of the indie comix crop."-Megan Sass, Heeb Magazine One...

Jam in the Band is the story of the rise and fall of the all-female junk-rock band Pitch Girl. The story focuses on the tension between the members of the band and the commitment they are willing to make to be successful. Lead singer Bianca is willing to give up everything to make her dream into a...