Desert Island

This Thursday we celebrate Angela Fanche and Katie Lane on the occasion of their crucial new works “Of Admire” (Perfectly Acceptable press, edition of 500, slides 1-10) and “Girls Gone Wild 2” (2D Cloud, ashcan edition of 100, slides 11-16). Join us at Desert Island for a meet-and-greet and book signing at 7pm. Refreshments will be served.

XO by Chris Day, new from Perfectly Acceptable press

Instant classic by Nate “The Animal” Garcia

Desert Island welcomes Kawakatsu Tokushige this Friday for an author signing of his new book The Cursed Body from Glacier Bay Books. Come meet this talented indie Japanese artist, selected by MINT manga to represent Japan’s modern manga culture.

Kawakatsu served as editor of the Kakù doujinshi alternative manga magazine, and periodically self-releases the magazine Kagyu (The Snail), from which both stories in The Cursed Body are drawn. Both stories draw heavily on traditional Japanese ghost stories (kaiki) and historical rental manga (kashihon) to deliver deep, surreal, and spooky reads.

Blown away by Mark Stillwell’s installation last night of approximately 10% of his 2791-page graphic novel the Dark Backwards, an epic tale of the search for immortality written by a dying man. I’ve known Mark a long time but never saw this work, which has been in progress over eleven years. Really incredible stuff that should be permanently installed in a museum. For now, I’m glad we were able to see a one-day installation at John Mejias’s studio, which took two weeks to install. Hope some version of this can see publication. He is still working on it and is in process on the final 270 page chapter. I think he is planning on serializing at . Thanks for helping get this work seen.

This new book is pretty sick!

Kim Deitch signs his new book “How I Make Comics” this Friday at 7! Well some of his other crucial works in stock and refreshments will be served. Come meet this living legend and dig this new meta-comic about his obsessions and influences. I especially enjoyed the piece about Deitch’s mother hanging around sci-fi fandom legends like Forrest J. Ackerman and meeting Ray Bradbury.

***The winner of our “name game” giveaway selected at random is !!! Come grab a free copy at the event!

Psyched to host crew tomorrow 5/8!! Come crush a beer and then destroy their risograph comics with your beer-soaked hands. Party at 7 in the place to be 💥

Stoked to birth a new baby Smoke Signal issue guest edited by Floyd Tangeman in SF!!! Smoke Signal 46 includes: .pail.child

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Trying to raise funds to send a thousand copies to SF for distro, which is stupid expensive. Consider preordering a supporter’s copy for $10 on our site!! They’re live now. These will be preorder only, meaning if you want one mailed now is the only chance. *Our beloved Mystery Mail subscribers will get one, and they’ll be available soon at D.I. 🔜

PLOMB is a group exhibition on paper, an anthology-as-art-experience from the dedicated minds and hands of Lagon R***e in France. The collective is elastic and ever-changing, but this time it contains Son Ni, Claire Braud, Agustina Casals, Séverine Bascouert, Erlend Peder Kvam, Gaspard Laurent, Alice Cayol, Elie Partouche, Jean Phillipe Bretin, Julie Redon, Henri Crabières, Jim Fontana, Pierre Guilhem, Vanessa Dziuba, Issam Smiri, Sammy Stein, Louis Butzbach, Chihoi, Jonny Negron, Kevin McCaughey. WHEW! This is a must-grip in our world. Got a couple in stock on Metropolitan Ave!