After losing his girlfriend and hip Boston apartment, Karl Stevens moves into a spare room in his painting professor’s home, where his bohemian adventures in sex and boozing converge with the rituals of life with a family and an unruly beagle named Cookie. In a series of humorous, poignant, and gorgeously rendered stories, The Lodger chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of the author as he grows as an artist and a man. Combining comic strips originally published in The Phoenix, Boston’s leading alternative weekly, with exquisite watercolors and oil paintings, The Lodger follows the Xeric-winning and Ignatz-nominated artist's Guilty and Whatever as a penetrating and visually stunning depiction of love, loss, and the moving minutiae of everyday life. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.

The Lodger

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Graphic Novels

Alternative Comics

The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs &amp; 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 the 21st Century? We asked some of the most talented ladies (and gentlemen) working in comics and animation today, along with some of the smartest writers we know including Lauren Weinstein, Jeffrey Brown, Sarah Oleksyk, Gabrielle Bell, Justin Hall, Ron Rege Jr., Vanessa Davis, Josh Neufeld, Andi Zeisler, Angie Wang, Ulli Lust (winner of the 34th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novels/comics) and a whole lot more, to but” into the heated discussion about the much more level but still contradictory playing field both sexes are struggling to find their footing on today.

The Big Feminist But: Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism

Brown, Jeffrey

Bell, Gabrielle

Lust, Ulli

Comic Strips

Sci-fi, horror, and comedy melted together and topped with a Twilight Zone twist. Darkly funny tales featuring mad science, gothic anime, TV zombies, kaiju, giant robots, monsters from the deep, and even a haunted sweatshirt. From the Emmy Award-winning storyboard artist and character designer of Adventure Time.

Night of the Living Vidiots: A Collection of Comics

Kramers Ergot is a new comix anthology showcasing the very best new cartoonists in comics. Some of the better known contributors include Xeric winners Anders Nilsen and Hans Rickheit, award-winning animation filmmakers Kathleen Lolley &amp; Stefan Gruber , Fort Thunder art associates Ben Jones and Joe Grillo, Neil Fitzpatrick (Neil Jam), Mat Tait (Comix 2000, SBC), and Justin Howe (Coober Skeeber). Stories range from light hearted and whimsical, to existential and psychosexual, to the surreal within the nostalgic. Cartooning styles are also quite varied but all of which are held together by an acute aesthetic sense of book design and long lastingness. Kramers Ergot is the only book of its kind: an exquisitely produced showcase for the finest young cartoonists emerging on the comix scene. Contributors also include Neil Fitzpatrick, Sara Varon, Mark Burrier, Zack Soto, Sammy Harkham and Luke Quigley. Kramers Ergot is edited by twenty-one-year-old Sammy Harkham, who felt that there was a serious dearth of books in well produced formats that presented work by new cartoonists. Many of the established anthologies that previously published unknown cartoonists side-by-side with established artists are no longer doing that anymore, or are now defunct. "Hopefully," Harkham said, "people will pick up an issue of Kramers Ergot and feel like they are getting shown what’s emerging in comics today."

Kramers Ergot Volume 3

VARIOUS

Have you ever regretted running into an ex”? Ingrid is riding home on her bike from her new job. From the corner of her eye she spots her ex-boyfriend Mark waiting for the bus. She stops to say Hello”. Awkward plans to meet for drinks ensue, thus beginning a series of lies, drugs, alcohol, sexual frustration, and gobs of guilt.

Guilty

<ul><li>Jeremy Knowles is a 17-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question — as is his very existence! Can he survive the experience through the healing power of art? And just what does it mean to be "crazy," anyway?</li></ul>

Look Straight Ahead

Will, Elaine M.

Chainmail Bikini is an anthology of comics by and about female gamers! Forty cartoonists have contributed comics about the games they’re passionate aboutfrom video games to tabletop role-playing to collectible card games. The comics in Chainmail Bikini explore the real-life impact of entering a fantasy world, and how games can connect us with each other and teach us about ourselves. Alliances are forged, dice get rolled, and dragons get slain! Chainmail Bikini shows that while women are not always the target market for gaming, they are a vital and thoroughly engaged part of it, and are eager to express their personal take as players, makers, and critics of games.
Chainmail Bikini is edited by Hazel Newlevant (If This Be Sin), and features a cover illustration by Hellen Jo and comics by established talents and rising stars including Annie Mok, Jane Mai, Molly Ostertag, MK Reed, and Sophie Yanow.

Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers

Welcome to Dawn’s crypt. Enter if you dare and witness stories of cosmic significance. There’re also a few about sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, but you wouldn’t be interested in THAT, would you? Okay--so those are pretty much the themes that are explored in this first-ever collection of the very best of CRYPT OF DAWN’s cutting edge short stories. Read some Linsner classics, such as “Death” and “Vicariosity,” as well as the epic collaboration between Sirius Publisher Robb Horan and Joseph Michael Linsner, entitled “Culture”! All this, along with stories by Dark One, Mark Crilley, Jason Alexander, and your host, Dawn herself!

The Best of Crypt of Dawn

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, they'd know something lurks beneath the waves.
Jim Campbell is a cartoonist, comic book colorist, and animator who is well known for his work on Patrick McHale's Over the Garden Wall series on Cartoon Network and the comic books from Boom! Studios. Jim has been drawing comics off and on since teaming up with the Meathaüs collective in 2001. He has been a color artist for Dark Horse, Marvel, Spongebob Comics, Mad Magazine, and Tony Millionaire for several years. In his spare time, he plays in the Brooklyn band Paper Fleet.

At The Shore

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lou is an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up in a small, working-class town in New England in the 1990s. One summer, it becomes clear that her brother Eddie’s boss at the pizza shop is mixed up in some unsavory business. Things become more precarious, until finally Eddie shows up for work to find his boss Joey has vanished.
Melissa Mendes is a cartoonist living and working in western Massachusetts. She attended Hampshire College from 2002 to 2006, and received her MFA from the Center For Cartoon Studies in 2010. Her debut graphic novel, Freddy Stories, was published with help from a Xeric Grant.

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