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McSweeney's 39

Edited by Dave Eggers

Publisher: McSweeneys

In classic quadruple-stamped hardcover clothing, Issue 39 offers a whole lot to behold—Elmore Leonard’s latest Karen Sisco caper and Roberto Bolaño’s Neochilean road trip, J.T.K. Belle’s unkillable bovine and Benjamin Weissman’s Louella Tarantula, Julie Hecht on Marimekko dresses and Jess Walter on going to cardboard, and amazing, far-ranging fiction from Amelia Grey and Abigail Maxwell and Yannick Murphy, too. (Plus some pretty incredible nonfiction on the fall of the Peacock Throne.) Don’t miss this one!

Kid Mafia #1

By Michael DeForge

Publisher: Self-published

This is a very substantial 32-page mini comic by Michael Deforge, a super productive modern comics master. It’s unbelievable how many ideas this guy has and how quickly he can just pump out a million great-looking comics with outlandish story ideas that are somehow made relatable by the familiar ways that the characters will interact. This one is about the titulous “Kid Mafia,” run by a high school dropout skater named Frank DeMeo. For most of the comic we see Frank and various underlings of his doing normal hopeless teenage actives like loitering outside a store, egging a house, skating a pool with limited success, and playing video games. As they’re doing these typical teen loser activities they’re also discussing their crime organizations plans. If you didn’t read English you would just assume they were talking about girls and drugs or something. Then at the end they kill a guy and scatter his body parts, which is kinda nuts. Like all of DeForge’s work it’s both bizarre and mundane at the same time and makes a lot of sense. Everything he does is worth a looking at and an owning.
-Nick Gazin, Vice Magazine

Johnny Joe's Coloring Book

By Roz Streeten

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Fans of the Rosie Flo coloring books will adore this new edition! Johnny Joe’s is a fresh companion to the series and features engaging scenes that appeal to both boys and girls. Add heads, legs, and arms to characters in a variety of exciting scenes featuring dinosaurs, robots, a futuristic city, sports, trains, and more! This unique coloring book boasts pages full of whimsy just waiting for young artists to create the characters to inhabit them. Thick paper stock prevents colors from showing through to the other side, and the trim size is more compact than ordinary coloring books, making this ideal for artists on the go.

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Hark A Vagrant

Hark! A Vagrant

By Kate Beaton

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

HARK! A VAGRANT takes readers on a romp through history and literature — with dignity for few and cookies for all — with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Beaton’s pared-down, excitable style. This collection features favourite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she’s writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense of the absurd to every situation.

In just four years, Kate Beaton has taken the comics world by storm with her non sequiturs, cheeky comebacks and irreverent punch lines. With 1.2 million monthly hits on her site — 500,000 of them unique — and comics appearing in Harpers Magazine, the National Post and The New Yorker, her caricatures of historical and fictional figures filtered through a contemporary lens display a sharp, quick wit that knows no bounds.

The Selves

The Selves

By Sonja Ahlers

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Before blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favoured by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A self-taught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her pop culture obsessions on her sleeve, professing her love for such visual icons as Princess Di, Holly Hobbie and Stevie Nicks. Focusing on found objects such as stickers, greeting cards, magazine photos collected in collage framework, complete with song lyrics hand-lettered in cursive script and heartbreaking, melancholic water colors, Ahlers explores and exposes the social construction of roles, feminine and otherwise. Beginning with incipient childhood self-awareness and traversing high school status jockeying to adult social climbing, the cultural imagery that supports and informs personal identity is given uneasy new meanings and importance in Ahlers’ visual remixes. With The Selves, the schizophrenic nature of an identity foraged from modern cultural sources is laid bare.

Big Questions

Big Questions

By Anders Nilsen

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

A haunting postmodern fable, BIG QUESTIONS is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. A downed plane is thought to be a bird and the unexploded bomb that came from it is mistaken for a giant egg by the group of birds whose lives the story follows. The indifferent and stranded pilot is of great interest to the birds–some doggedly seek his approval, while others do quite the opposite, leading to tensions in the group.Nilsen seamlessly moves from humor to heartbreak. His distinctive, detailed line work is paired with plentiful white space and large, often frameless panels, conveying an ineffable sense of vulnerability and openness.

BIG QUESTIONS has roots in classic fable–the story’s birds and snakes have more to say than their human counterparts and there are hints of the classic hero’s journey, but the easy moral that closes most fables is left here as open and ambiguous. Rather than lending its world meaning, Nilsen’s parable lets the questions wander out to go where they will.

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