Movie Zines by Nathan Gelgud
$6 each
Self-Published
Two new zines from our local hero, movie comics maestro, Nate Gelgud! Movie Matters features musings and tidbits by all your fave auteurs from A to V (Altman to Varda, natch, as we wait for Zulawski in the next one). Reel Politik follows the ornery staff of the Carlyle Theatre as they take down everything from populist movies to Letterboxd, all while pushing the end of "bourgeois garbage". Perfect stocking stuffers for the cinephile in your life or a red pill for a comics lover who's reading the same Batman comics and watching Love, Actually yet again this holiday season.
Zanzer Of Gorzu by Josh Pettinger
$9
Self-Published
From the twisted mind and pristine line of Josh Pettinger comes an apocalyptic science fiction quick hitter of unparalleled grandeur. Be prepared for your mind, stomach and your regions south of your stomach to expand, gurgle and burn but not necessarily in that order and who knows which organ is doing what.
UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina
$20
Smudge/Living the Line
This wild, Umezu-esque UFO spore-horror (sporror?) was originally released in 1976. So was Klaatu's Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft. Coincidence? Hell no. Also, it's Holmberg-translated so you know your co-workers will be chatting about it at the water cooler.
Zine Panique: Sword & Sorcery
$24 (IMPORT, English/French Language)
Zine Panique
Zine Panique continues to be one of the best anthologies on that side of the Atlantic. For this fantasy collection, you could say curator Yann was "willing to put in the Orc". Featuring a head-loppin' Lale Westvind cover along with Ben Marra, Lando, Margot Ferrick, Lane Milburn and Tyler Landry just to name a few, you'll be "goblin" this comics-feast up.
Distant Ruptures by CF
$33
New York Review Comics
With the cultural shift and trend towards the late '90s and the Aughts, along comes this CF collection, expertly curated by our favorite comics maven Sammy Harkham. Most naughty aughty explorations lean heavily on nostalgia, but CF's "sci-fi" stories (extremely hard air quotes) are timeless, as in, they feel like they exist in no time. This is a special batch of weirdo comics for folks who are down to get squiggly.
Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen
$40
Fantagraphics
To me, perfection is a pepperoni pizza. I once got a pie that had 3 different kinds of pepperoni: regular pepperoni, mini pepperoni, super mini pepperoni. Sunday is that pepperoni pizza. Each type of pep represents Schrauwen's subtly different types of humor, and it's simultaneously arranged methodically and in a stream of consciousness flow, like a pizza fractal. That 3-pep pizza was a masterpiece and so is this book. There is not a cartoonist in the world like Olivier Schrauwen and I'm quite certain the word pepperoni has never been used so much to describe his work.
Dreaming In Color by Natalie Andrewson
(w/SIGNED BOOKPLATE while supplies last)
$40
Peow2
Our pal and Queen Of Riso Natalie Andrewson ruled it a few holidays ago with her Nutcracker And Mouse King book, and appears that WINTER HAS COMETH again with her artbook Dreaming In Color, from reborn publishers and comics hotties Peow2. Gorgeous art, bonkers transparent layover sheets, and perhaps the best offset recreation of risograph these peepers have ever peeped, on top of all that, you also get a damn interesting treatise on the riso process. All hail the Queen, long may the crown reside in Atwater Village.
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