Dead Trees

After gaining phenomenal popularity and critical acclaim online with smallstoriesonline.com, Derek Kirk Kim collects the stories that garnered him all the attention in the past two years with this handsome new collection.

Through a series of sensitive–and often hilarious–short stories, Kirk Kim, deftly explores the not-so-average twenty-somethings’ quarter-life crisis, romantic neurosis, and perhaps most refreshingly of all, Korean-American life. In September 2002, Kirk’s self-effacing wit, ear for dialogue, and meticulous art style earned him the Xeric Grant as well as an Ignatz nomination, two prestigious industry awards. Find out for yourself why Derek Kirk Kim is considered a stand-out among the new generation of cartoonists and a fresh new voice in Asian American literature.

“Rocketing out of obscurity in 2001. A powerful storyteller in 2002. No American cartoonist has more promise in 2003 than Derek Kirk Kim.” –Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.

Sub-distributed by Alternative Comics.
By Derek Kirk Kim, Mature Readers, 154 pages, $12.00 US. ISBN: 1-891867-48-2. Continue Reading →

Be sure to check out Innies and Outies on it’s third year anniversary.

It’s a comic strip about two latchkey kids, a grandmother, a zombie with an identity crisis and, of course, world domination.  And the first collection of Innies and Outies strips, "It’s All Mine and You Can’t Have It!" is now available at the website and these fine stores:

• Meltdown Comics in West Hollywood
• Golden Apple in Hollywood and
• Hi-De-Ho Comics in Santa Monica.

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John Allison’s latest bit of brilliance is about to hit print!

Looks, Brains & Everything, the first Scary Go Round collection is now available for pre-order. And as if that weren’t good enough, the first 200 people to pre-order will apparently get their names in the back of the book for posterity. It’s 128 full-color pages, and packed with creepy goodness (or so rumour has it).
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It’s called Methinks the Lass Has a Screw Loose and you can order it here.

Alice, a Keenspot comic by Michael McKay-Fleming, is the story of a young girl with quite an over active imagination. The strip has been running on the web for nearly four years.
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Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida finally arrives in book format. Published by Museworks, it’s available at both Amazon and Cafe Press. Continue Reading →

New print issues of the serialized webcomic, Astounding Space Thrills, will be distributed FREE to attendees at a number of conventions this year, starting with Megacon.

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According to The Pulse, Justice League Adventures #16, due this month, will feature the writing talent of Scott McCloud. McCloud, author of Reinventing Comics, will also pen a Superman project due out in fall of 2003.

In an interview conducted by the Pulse’s Jen Contino, McCloud gave little details of the Supes project. However, he was much more informative about his own upcoming online graphic novella entitled "The Right Number". To read the entire McCloud interview, please visit the The Pulse.

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Image Comics puts out comic books and has posted several issues of said comic books online for free browsing, including issue #5 of the Dork Storm Press run of PVP. I guess you can consider this the equivalent of the early days of comic books where they were mostly comprised of reprints of newspaper comic strips. Or shovelware. Still I’m not going to complain about free. Continue Reading →

The Goats graphic novels, Evil Chickens Don’t Kiss: Goats Volume III and Behold The Power Of Ignorance: Goats Volume IV by John Rosenberg are now available in local comic shops everywhere. Goatsfans are encouraged to ask their local comic shops to stock both graphic novels. Both titles will be distributed by Cold Cut Distribution. Fore more details, head over to the Goats website. Continue Reading →

The first Narbonic print collection includes the daily strips from the beginning to Dave’s death, a ten-page bonus story not found anywhere else, an introduction by Joey Manley, and pinups by Dirk Tiede, Derek Kirk, and Andrew Farago.

You can buy the book here at the Narbonic site. Continue Reading →