This Week’s Press Highlights

Praise for The Complete Eightball

“A lovingly restored two-volume collection of Daniel Clowes’s seminal comic book series, gives readers old and new a chance to reassess the great cartoonist’s work, allowing them to trace back the roots of later masterpieces and to enjoy some of the caustic, experimental, and just plain strange short stories.”

Read more at The Comics Journal

 

Praise for Jason’s If You Steal

“Full of pop culture kitsch, genre-mashing experimentation, and quiet ennui-heavy contemplation”

Read more at Comic Book Resource

 

Praise for Dörfler

“In Dörfler, his debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Pittsburgh-based cartoonist Jeremy Baum scales up his familiar style and approach to create a hypnotic narrative that trips gaily along a tightrope over the abyss of obscurity.”

Read more at Broken Frontier

“Like the wonderfully avant garde animated series AEon Flux, nearly every frame here seems to ooze equal amounts of sinister intent, dark eroticism, and high weirdness.”

Read more at Boing Boing

 

Praise for Fante Bukowski by Noah Van Sciver

“Fantagraphics have collected his webcomic Fante Bukowski, which continues its author’s tradition of delivering caustic satire while still maintaining a degree of empathy for its flawed characters.”

Read more at Broken Frontier
Wuvable Oaf is one of Powell’s New and Recommended Graphic Novels

Not Funny Ha-Ha is one of Word Bookstores Books of the Week

Les McCann’s Invitation to Openness is featured in the latest print issue of Wax Poetics with a ten page photo spread