This collection features all of Girlhero creator Megan Kelso's non-Bottlecap stories from that title as well as stories from Action Girl and Dark Horse Presents. Megan scrutinizes bicycle messengers, venereal diseases, infidelity, unwanted pregnancies, temporary work assignments,family reunions, and classroom daydreams in a subtle and unexpected manner. Two brand new stories also round out this collection of thought-provoking writing and simple-yet-beautiful cartooning from one of comicdom's brightest female stars.

Queen of the Black Black

Comics & Graphic Novels

Kelso, Megan

Graphic Novels

Highwater Books

Tiny Bubbles is the newest graphic novel from cartoonist James Kochalka. Magic Boy's hypochondria gets the best of him in Kochalka's most ambitious graphic novel yet. A chance meeting with an action-painting robot forces Magic Boy to contemplate the meaning of art and his own technophobia. Heady stuff leavened with Kochalka's usual bratty humor and thick brushstrokes. Tiny Bubbles is a wacky masterpiece by one of the strongest new talents in comics!

Tiny Bubbles

Kochalka, James

Teratoid Heights realistically depicts the lifecycles of various species found in the tide location's cave-riddled terrain, down to the most painstakingly detailed behavioral patterns. It matters not that both Teratoid Heights and its inhabitants are entirely fictional. Brinkman taps into the zeitgeist of modern suburban America with what seems to be a mixture of J.R.R. Tolkein-style adventure, video-game inspired syncopation and an endless barrage of cable-television nature films all filtered through the reddened eyes of a marijuana-addled teenager. A book that reveals levels of humor and humanity no matter what age the reader. The author, Mat Brinkman (aka Matt Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, Mystery Brinkman, Brinkman, Brinkmangler, Mucid Cuspidor...) (b. 1973) is an artist and electronic musician from Texas. He was a creator of the Fort Thunder artist live-work space in Providence, RI. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer and Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 2000, his Teratoid Heights comic was published by Highwater Books. Through his anonymous and pseudonymous works, he, like Bruce Conner and Marcel Duchamp before him, seems to be concerned with issues of artistic credit and its relation to artistic output. His musical performances have incorporated aspects of circuit bending and drum and bass.

Teratoid Heights

Children's Books

Brinkman, Matt

A FANTASTICAL, WORDLESS VOYAGE THROUGH SUBTERRANEAN MAZES A rat darts across the opening pages, into a hole, and down a long tunnel, stopping under a hammock. A mole man stretches and wakes up, leading the rat and the reader deeper into the tunnel. What follows is a series of dreamlike sequences, each stranger than the last. Brian Ralph, author of the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller and YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens Daybreak, was a founding member of the influential Providence, Rhode Island, Fort Thunder art collective, which was renowned for the way its membersâ€™ work intermingled lowbrow and highbrow art formsâ€”drawing inspiration from comics, video and roleplaying games, and contemporary art. Fort Thunder created the alternative adventure comic and the comic book as artistâ€™s book. Cave~In was seen as the first example of this new approach. In this wordless classic, special emphasis is placed on the power of gesture. Minimalism allows Ralph to be playful with formâ€”Cave~Inâ€™s use of color and crosshatching speaks much more clearly to narrative shifts than is possible in a more conventional text, and the use of different panel shapes and sizes transform the rhythm and pacing of the story. Cave~In is an allages adventure story, jam-packed with monsters, bats, and all manner of unimaginable underground mystery.

Cave-In

Ralph, Brian

Kissers

A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiar Road trips, drunken concerts, and late-night make-out sessions all swirl together in this coming-of-age graphic novel by King Cat cartoonist John Porcellino. Tackling the pain and uncertainty of the pivotal summer before college, Porcellino's sad and beautiful story is drawn in his sincere, minimalist style. Deceptively and charmingly simple, Perfect Example is a collection of Porcellino's self-published King Cat comics, which have won over thousands of readers with their honesty, empathy, and sincerity.

Perfect Example

Porcellino, John

On the run from the cops after buying cigarettes for minors, the Gingerbread Man drives his ice cream truck out of the city, where he meets a hungry wolf, goes to Candy Town, and is featured in the diary of a lovesick girl-pig.

Catch As Catch Can

Cook, Greg

From the cartoonist who brought us Cave-In comes a series of wordless stories about masked wrestlers and giant robots. The book's dramatic black inking and detailed scratchboard styling, displayed in an over-sized format, guarantee that Fireball will be arrestingly beautiful.

Fireball

Brian Ralph

Skibber Bee-Bye

Ron Rege Jr.

Odds Off

MADDEN, Matt

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