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Sorenson, Jen – Slowpoke: Cafe Pompous
I remember thinking that Slowpoke was great a few years ago. With this book, she’s going in a slightly different direction. I’ve always been a bigger fan of comics stories than newspaper type strips (Steven being the only notable exception I can think of), but she makes this stuff work. Political at times, she deals with all kinds of ridiculous events and current happenings with pretty much the same attitude. Look, this is a cheap, good book, and it’s a Xeric Grant winner. Do you need any other reason to give it a try? Hey, here’s a website with all kinds of samples. Go!
Riverwurst Anthologies – Riverwurst #4
Riverwurst #4
It’s always great to see a good random anthology. Seems like these are a dime a dozen, but real quality books are always hard to come by. Here are some familiar names from this website, at least: Nick Jeffrey, Larned Justin, Jen Sorenson, and Jenny Gonzalez. All kinds of good strips in here from people that I’d never heard of too, and a former sex worker who had an essay about how great boobs are, Candye Kane. What’s the book about? Well, you can read the cover for a few themes (it’s magazine sized, I just shrunk it down), but it also has Pickle Dude by Ben Liesch, a story about the ironies of eating meat from Jeremy Kirk, tattoo revenge by Bill Krupinski, some old strips from Denis Kitchen (you know, the guy who ran Kitchen Sink Press), a couple of incredibly funny strips from Dug Belan, and a disturbing story about a young girl who wants to be a robot from Heather Shinn… and that’s only the the first half of the book. Great stuff all around, probably the best anthology I’ve seen so far this year… but it’s early yet. Here’s an e-mail address, #3 is available too, and this is a great way to spend $4 if you like comics.