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Taylor, Dan W. (editor) – Time Warp Comix #6

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Time Warp Comix #6   Now Available! $.50

Dan has been cranking out the comics these days (“these days” being a little late on my end, as I lost track of this stack of his comics for an embarrassing amount of time after I moved last year). Sure, he’s the editor, so it’s not like he’s drawing every strip, but he still contributes regularly and I’ve heard enough horror stories about trying to get pages out of small press comics people for anthologies to still respect him plenty for his editor job. This is another solid pile of stories, from the same crew that usually contributes to these things. There’s Richard Krauss and his hilarious send-up of the daily diary strips that are all over the place, Andy Nukes with a bit of abstract art, John Howard telling us what he’s learned since his early days as an artist, D. Miller with a tale of thievery by the Campbells Soup people, and Jim Siergey with a few random thoughts that I can’t describe without ruining for you. And hey, it’s always a good sign when I laugh at the cover (by Dan, just in case that wasn’t clear). As always it’s worth a look, especially for that measly $.50 asking price.

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Taylor, Dan W. (editor) – Time Warp Comix #8

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Time Warp Comix #8 Now Available!  $.50

This comic immediately passed one important test for me, and probably only for me: it was tough to pick out only one sample to use, and for an 8 page book that ain’t bad.  It’s a quick blast of a comic with nothing lasting more than a page, with the usual cast of characters.  Artists, that is.  There’s Richard Krauss with the sampled strip below (I just love that constantly widening perspective), Jim Siergey with the legally required strip with the bad puns, Bob Vojtko (how do you pronounce that name anyway?  I’ll bet he’s long since tired of answering that question) has the dark side of the nursing home, and Bill Shut closes the book with a bizarrely wonderful drawing.  Dan Taylor gets 4 pages, as he is the one who puts all this together, dealing with buying a comic he used to read as a kid and marveling at the technical changes, the realities of putting out a physical comic versus counting hits on a website, and another age joke at his expense.   It’s another solid, tiny, cheap collection of strips, so why won’t you buy it already?  $.50

Krauss, Richard – Media Report Comix

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This is for all you comic readers out there who appreciate the history of the genre. Richard has released a collection of sorts of some strips from the late 70’s, done in color (as he always wanted) for the first time. As with any collection of this sort, some of the jokes didn’t do anything for me, while others were pretty damned funny. And as with any collection of this sort, any attempt of a reviewer to go page by page and describe what the jokes are about would essentially kill the funny. I think the page I sampled is pretty representative of the contents; if you like this stuff, chances are you’ll like the rest of the book. If you don’t… well, maybe I picked the wrong page to sample. There is a website up there for you to get a more thorough idea of his work anyway, so what are you complaining to me about? $3

Krauss, Richard – Midnight Fiction 2008 Desk Calendar

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Midnight Fiction 2008 Desk Calendar Now Available! $6

The contributors: Sean Azzopardi, Scott Ball, Hunt Emerson, Brad W. Foster, Allen Freeman, Richard Krauss, DC McNamara, John Porcellino, Bill Shut, Jim Siergey, Dan W. Taylor, Bob Vojtko, and Steve Willis. In case you’re wondering how this thing work, it’s beautiful in its simplicity. These are individual pages inside of a CD case, so all you have to do is flip the CD lid over backwards and you have an easy stand for your desk calendar. So instead of Dilbert or some other crap in your office cubicle, you can show the world how cool you really are with a calendar full of small press art. It starts with November of this year (2007), so you get a couple of bonus months with your calendar.