The first volume of Box Brown's anthology series, Number! This includes two new stories, Kayfabe Quarterly, and The Documentarian. In Kayfabe Quarterly, a young fan's run-in with legendary wrestler Diamond Dick Corduroy causes him to re-examine his life and soon sets him on the path of creating his own 'zine, Kayfabe Quarterly. And in The Documentarian, we get a brief look at the life of a documentary filmmaker.

Number 1

Comics & Graphic Novels

Brown, Box

Graphic Novels

Retrofit Comics LLC

An insular island community pulls an egg from a tidepool, from which hatches the apocalypse in the form of a vast, cruel chicken. Wicked Chicken Queen follows the violent societal collapse of the island under the reign of the chicken queen.

Wicked Chicken Queen

Alden, Sam

Bear, Bird and Stag Were Arguing in the Forest (and other stories) contains the brand new 20 page title story as well as three of Madéleine Flores's popular webcomics: Weave, Soul, and Wander. In the days of talking animals, Bear, Bird and Stag argue over which one of them should be king. They seek the wisdom of the mystical Forest Witch, who sends them on a quest to prove how royal they are. These four stories show Madéleine's versatility as an artist and read with a sense of wonder often brought on by fairy tales.

Bear, Bird and Stag Were Arguing in the Forest (and Other Stories)

Flores, Madeleine

Eisner Award-winner James Kochalka presents a forest full of cute but strange fungus creatures that live beneath our feet. This book contains 11 chapters of little fungal creatures ruminating on a variety of topics, including such bizarre mysteries as "comics" and "philosophy", "cyberspace" and "redemption". A surreal and funny outside look at the elements of our own reality.

FUNGUS: The Unbearable Rot of Being

Kochalka, James

This is the story of the winter of 1980. In the shadow of the days following John Lennon's murder, a strange preteen, dressed inexplicably in a spacesuit, wanders the wastelands of suburban Ohio struggling with the nameless forces that surround him and the seemingly well meaning but ultimately sinister adults he encounters every day. He numbly navigates the universe around him and within him, obsessed with comicbook heroes like Mr. Incompleto, ROM, and Zero Sum, who seem to occupy a void only he is aware of. His name is Seth but everyone calls him THETH.

Theth

Bayer, Josh

Constantly wallowing in her comfy bed with her cat, while watching TV and eating snacks, seems pretty great to Debbie. Until her room starts flooding with a strange liquid and Debbie is too lazy to escape! Luckily, her cat finally admits it can talk and leads Debbie through a modern Inferno, on a spiritual quest through Debbie's personal states of mind.

Debbie's Inferno

Emond, Anne

The second volume of Box Brown's anthology series, Number! This includes two new stories, "Sk8rh8r" and "Elroy Mirrors' Big Score". In "Sk8rh8r", 33-year-old Rose skateboards drunk to grab some delicious burgers and runs into both Buddy Bob and the police, while in "Elroy Mirrors' Big Score", Elroy tries to build his documentary film career while dealing with his more successful friends, the strange subjects of his films, and his direction in life.

Number 2

This collection of three stories by Akino Kondoh presents some of the cartoonist and animator's best known work for Ax, Japan's premier venue for alternative manga, and a recent story about life in New York City. Quiet stories of contemplation, mixed with the surreal strangeness just beyond conscious thought: pushing events into the background until you forget what they were, a girl feeling a strange presence as she goes to sleep, and losing part of yourself in preparing for someone's return.

Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open

KONDOH, Akino

Manga

Ben Sea aka Ben Constantine aka Plump Oyster, an artist from Brisbane, Australia brings us the story of a young couple who've each ingested a magic eyelash. That is where their journey begins and it leads them down separate paths. At least one path involves a knife fight.

Eyelash Out

Constantine, Ben

In this wordless tale, the young human boy Mowgli lives alone in the jungle. When he befriends an orangutan, Mowgli thinks he has found his lifemate. But Mowgli still wonders if there any other creatures that look like him. Mowgli sets out on a journey through the jungle, encountering all types of creatures and having numerous adventures. A fantastic use of layout and design by critically-acclaimed Olivier "Ollie" Schrauwen, printed in orange and blue spot colors. * Nominated for a 2016 Eisner Award

Mowgli's Mirror

Schrauwen, Olivier

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