This unique & wise book is an enchanting reflection on the odd travails of childhood. Author & illustrator Renee French has brought her unique visual gift to this tender, ferocious tale. The book was inspired by a display at the Mutter Museum in Phila. at the College of Physicians of Phila. In Dec. 1874, the well-preserved body of a woman was found in a Phila. cemetery that was being relocated. Her fat had turned to adipocere, a waxy substance similar to lye soap that can occur in fat tissues under certain burial conditions. A Phila. physician, Dr. Joseph Leidy, recognized the scientific significance of this form of natural preservation, & got permission to send her body to the Mutter Museum, where it still can be seen.

Soap Lady

Renée French

Children's Books

Top Shelf Productions

Marbles In My Underpants

Jim Woodring

Mason is young, and he hangs out with kids that are into bad music and bad haircuts. He lives in sunny California, where he spends his nights acting stupid in punk rock clubs and his days aimlessly reading comics and listening to tunes. The two most important things in his life are the girl who makes his heart beat at erratic speeds and the band with the strange boy he knows from high school—both of whom lead lives far more interesting than the one he leads himself. Unfortunately, his life is about to come crashing down on him in a barrage of angry fists and stomping feet. Everything is going to change. The debut novel by Oni editor in chief Jamie S. Rich is finally back in print. Featuring illustrations by Scott Morse, Andi Watson, Judd Winick, Renee French, and Chynna Clugston-Major. Cover by Mike Allred (X-STATIX). Co-published by Crazyfish/MJ-12.

Cut My Hair

JUDD WINICK

Jamie S. Rich

Mike Allred

Chynna Clugston-Major

Scott Morse

andi-watson

Literature & Fiction

Oni Press

Sophisticated works by an international cast of award winning artists. Includes comics by: Ivan Brunetti, David Choe, Dave Cooper, Renee French, Tom Hart, Michael Kupperman, David Lasky, Lat, Matt Madden, Megan Kelso, James Kochalka, John Porcellino, Ron Regé Jr., Sara Varon and many others. Wrapped in a jam cover by Dave Cooper, Marc Bell, Miriam Katin and Ron Regé Jr.Rosetta is a squarebound 196-page comics anthology of sophisticated works by an international cast of award winning artists. Rosetta is targeted at a mature audience which views comics as a valid art form equal to any other. Rosetta not only entertains with new stories by over twenty award winning cartoonists from North America and around the world, but also reveals the creative processes and compromises that occur in the creation of comic art in the form of a sketchbook section.The contributing artists have been set the task to go beyond the boundaries set by their previous works and to push themselves into areas that they consider dangerous to their reputations. Edited by Ng Suat Tong, with Tom Devlin doing Graphic Design, Rosetta is packaged under a phenomenal sequential jam cover and endpaper concept by Dave Cooper, Marc Bell, Miriam Katin and Ron Regé Jr.Under a cover by Dave Cooper, Nick Bertozzi dreams about the sequentiality of Hokusai’s prints, Ivan Brunetti muses upon the music of Erik Satie, David Choe examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a trip to the Gaza strip, David Collier discusses the quirks of Islam, Renee French provides an eccentric example of portraiture, Tom Hart explores his literary side, the respected cartoonist Lat retrieves a distant memory of his childhood in Malaysia, Matt Madden produces sequential magic out of old NYC mugshots, Miriam Katin delves into the moral questions surrounding her childhood in Hungary, Megan Kelso provides another chapter in her Artichoke Tales”, James Kochalka provides an atypical example of his realism, Ron Regé Jr. philosophizes about consumerism, Katja Tukiainen provides a diary of her trip of India to study yoga and Stefan J H van Dinther tests the boundaries of experimental comics.The creators contributing to this project include:M. S. Bastian (of the Swiss avant-garde Mutanten group)Marc Bell (The Expo anthology, Exclaim! and Vice magazines)Nick Bertozzi (Boswash, The Masochists, Rubber Necker)Ivan Brunetti (Schizo, Haw)David Choe (Slow Jams, Non)David Collier (Collier’s, Just the Facts)Greg Cook (Catch as Catch Can)Dave Cooper (Weasel, Crumple)Renee French (Marbles in My Underpants, The Soap Lady)Tom Hart (The Sands, Hutch Owen, Triple Dare)Michael Kupperman (Snake N Bacon)Ulf K. (The Man on the Moon, Tango with Death)David Lasky (Boom Boom, Urban Hipster, Ulysses)Lat (Kampung Boy, Town Boy)Matt Madden (Black Candy, Odds Off, A Fine Mess)Miriam Katin (Monkeysuit, Drawn & Quarterly)Megan Kelso (Queen of the Black Black, Girlhero)James Kochalka (Sketchbook Diaries, Monkey vs. Robot, Fantastic Butterflies, Peanutbutter & Jeremy)John Porcellino (King Cat, Perfect Example)Ron Regé Jr. (Skibber Bee Bye, Drawn & Quarterly)Tobias Schalken (Eiland)Katja Tukiainen (New Thing)Stefan J. H. van Dinther (Eiland)Sara Varon (Dreamland Burns, Sweaterweather)Danijel Zezelj (The Corinthian, Air Mexico, WWIII Illustrated)

Rosetta: A Comics Anthology Volume 1

Comics & Graphic Novels

Tom Hart

Ivan Brunetti

James Kochalka

David Collier

Michael Kupperman

Dave Cooper

Nick Bertozzi

David Choe

Marc Bell

Graphic Novels

Alternative Comics

Baby Bjornstrand tells the tale of Mickey, Marcel, and Cyril and their misadventures with an undeniably adorable and mysteriously menacing monster. A wasteland becomes fertile ground for fantasy as the book's graphite grotesqueries are brought to life by Renee French's adroit hand; her elegant shading seemingly wringing her wondrous worlds out of the page itself.
Renee French has been making comics that revel in the killer side of cute and the horrors that lie within and without since the early '90s. Her past work includes The Ticking (Top Shelf Productions, 2006), Micrographica (Top Shelf Productions, 2007),H Day (PictureBox, 2010), and Hagelbarger and That Nightmare Goat (Yam Books, 2013).

Baby Bjornstrand

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Koyama Press

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