Hey all. Gosh are we excited! Blammo #7 is IN STORE! And, we’re already down to a paltry 1,303 copies left. Oh, wait, 1,302. Forgot about Jordan’s order last night. Needless to say, get ‘em while they’re hot.
No joke this is a 40-page issue, and while it’s certainly the most robust issue to date, it’s also the darkest, with the best story telling, and the tightest line work young Van Sciver has done to date. We filmed a promo interview for it which we’ll be putting up before too long, but if you just wanna buy your copy of Blammo, check out our ‘shop‘.
Secondly, we have recently gotten in a bunch of great new comics. We’ve really been beefing up the small press comic section, and are proud purveyors of:
Shirtlifter, by Steve MacIsaac
Shirtlifter — a comic out of Southen California by Steve MacIsaac. Steve’s a great guy who’s been putting out Shirtlifter for a while now. We just got in issues 1-3, and we highly recommend them.
While Steve’s pretty graphic depictions of sex aren’t really new in comics, since it’s gay sex, his comics have a hard time finding shelf space in most shops, let alone an audience.
Really, compared to the narcissistic tripe of most of those 60′s dudes who just drew giant dongs ejaculating into outer space, or the shockingly one-dimensional homo-eroticism of most superhero comics, Shirtlifter is amazingly well written, very well drawn, contains though provoking comics, and is full of well developed characters. Check it out
Beyond that we got in a bunch of stuff from the USS Catastrophe folks out in St. Louis. This gang consists of Kevin Huizenga, Ted May, Mardou, and Dan Zettwoch. They put out delightful minis, awesome screen-printed covers, and just overall beautiful books.
From the fine folks at USS Catastrophe
The book shown here — Anais in Paris — is a great little bio treat from Mardou, who also puts out the equally excellent ‘Manhole’, all of which are really beautiful – and selling well, so get ‘em whilst they’re hot.
This crew, by the way, makes me jealous of St. Louis. SAINT LOUIS! The amount of talent crammed into these books will really shock you, and it seems the community out there is super tight.
I should add here that if you haven’t picked up Huizenga’s ‘Wild Kingdom’ do it. Do it now. It’s fantastic. AND if you order it from the USS Catastrophe shop, he’ll do a little drawing in there for you. You can see the one he did for me here, and the one for Luke here.
Lastly, we got in a handful of this new mini by one of our favorite local dudes, Sam Spina. Sam stopped in the other day and dropped off his FIFTY CENT MASTERPIECE ‘Dog Craps’.
Dog Craps!
Sam is one of those rare talents who both was trained in the actual graphic arts, still has a great sense of humor, and works like a dog. Seriously, the longer we’re involved in comics, the more we realize that it’s just DOING THEM ALL THE TIME that makes the difference, and Sam has figured that out too.
We really love his work, and you can buy most all of his catalog at Kilgore, though we highly recommend you keep up with his daily strip over at his blog.
We hope to work with Sam on a bigger project sometime soon, and we’ll letcha all know when THAT happens.
Ok, that’s the updates for now. Oh, though we have gotten in a crapload of other bigger (relatively speaking) press comics, we wanted to highlight some of the great self published stuff that’s out there.
Thank you for your time.
