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Alternative Comics has been a co-operativeorganization of independent comic book

publishers, editors, and artists since 1993,and is the home to some of the finest creator-

owned graphic novels and comic books.

Current imprints include Alternative Comics,

Floating World Comics &Hic & Hoc Publications.

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est ube ollows three people living in a aceless city o decrepit movietheaters, girlie night clubs, and paper thin apartment buildings. Withinthat stew, they are exposed to strange photographs, statues, cardboard cut-outs, and sexual mania. Teir destinies converge, revealing an ambitiousplot to accelerate human evolution. A Floating World Comics production.

Carlos Gonzalez is a deeply inspirational gure in the underground comicsand music scene. He has created a vast body o DIY work including the500 page sci- opus, Slime Freak, experimental lms shot on VHS, and anumber o cassettes recorded with his musical project, Russian sarlag. Hiscomics have been published in anthologies likeKramers Ergot 6 and hisartwork has been exhibited in galleries with members o Fort Tunder.

Carlos Gonzalez lives in Providence, RI, USA.

Cal s G z lezTest Tube144-page paperback In Stores: January 2016ISBN: 978-1-942801-92-4List price: $14.95 / $18.50 CAN

“Te immersive tour de orcehere will make you laugh notnecessarily through gags, butby sheer surreal weirdness.”

—Seattle Weekly

Cover art by Malachi Ward

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Dyl n H cksIncomplete

Works192-page paperback In Stores: March 2016ISBN: 978-1-934460-54-2List Price: $19.99 / $25.99 CAN

Daydreams, antasy, true love and procrastinationeature strongly in this marvelous selectiono Dylan Horrocks’s shorter comics. Runningrom 1986 to 2012,Incomplete Works is both thechronicle o an age and a portrait o one man’sheroic struggle to get some work done. FirstNorth American Edition.Dylan Horrocks has written and drawn graphic

novels, comic books, comic strips and short stories or publishers around the world.His graphic novelHicksville has been published in six languages. His second graphicnovel Sam Zabel And Te Magic Pen was published in January, 2015.

Practical and in-depth tips on making and selling daily newspaper comic strips from an artist who has been there.

A complete how-to manual or making the best comic strips you can, romconception, to idea generation, to layout, lettering, nishing, coloring and evenselling. From an experienced pro essional comic strip artist, the book is loadedwith examples and instruction as well as personal stories within the industry.om Hart is a cartoonist and the Executive Director o Te Sequential ArtistsWorkshop in Gainesville, Florida. He is the creator o the Hutch Owen series ographic novels and books, and has been nominated or all the major comic book

industry awards. His most recent graphic novel isRosalie Lightning .

T Hat The Sequential Artists

Workshop Guide ToCreating Professional

Comic Strips 96-page paperback In Stores: April 2016

ISBN: 978-1-934460-89-4List price: $12.95 / $15.95 CAN

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Tree cartoon animals live in a house together in the American Midwest.

Tey get a job, get sick, and throw a party. Teir lives are lit by street lampsand the ickering V set. Tey do incredibly stupid things with hilariousand disastrous results. It’s about riendship, booze, and the slow collapseo western civilization. And they’re so cute!

Jon Allen studied illustration at Pratt Institute and holds a master’s degree in paintingrom Cranbrook Academy o Art. He teaches oundation drawing. In addition to OhioIs For Sale, he wrote and illustrated Vacationland , a sel -published graphic novel.

J AllenOhio Is For Sale

272-page paperback In Stores: April, 2016ISBN: 978-1-934460-82-5List price: $19.99 / 25.99 CAN

M l chi Wad From Now OnShort Comic Tales

of The Fantastic144-page paperback In stores: April, 2016ISBN: 978-1-934460-91-7List price: $14.95 / 16.50 CAN

A collection o hauntingly beauti ul Science Fiction and Horror short stories byProphet and Ritual artist Malachi Ward. Collects stories rom Mome, Study Group Magazine, Sundays, Best American Comics 2013 and more. Ward’s recent work hasbeen seen in his ongoing seriesRitual rom Revival House Press.

Malachi Ward is the creator o the Ritual comic book series or Revival HousePress, Te Expansion series with Matt Sheean,Te Scout, Utu, and op Five , whichis included in the 2013 edition o Best American Comics. Malachi has done work orBrandon Graham’s Prophet, Island, Mome, NoBrow, and Study Group Comics.

“I love the delicate savagery oJon Allen’s observational humor.“Funny animals”…? Don’t be ooled.

—Nick Abadzis

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Enter the strange and compelling comic book world o Eric Haven. Deconstructing the

tawdry orm o the traditional comic book, Haven builds layers o dark, dorkish humorto undermine the expectations o certain amiliar genres. A series o short comics thatdeconstructs—while it celebrates—classic comic book tropes.

Tough brie , the stories here make an un orgettable impact thanks to Haven’s strong, inky visuals—as with the death rider in a polo outt, Equestria—and unrelenting ascinating withdeath and doom. It’s a haunting combo.”—Publishers Weekly Review of Haven’s book UR.

Eric Haven was a long-time producer o the popular television show Mythbusters.He has been producing unusual and ascinating comics or many years.

Eric H venCompulsiveComics176-page hardcover In Stores: March 15, 2016ISBN: 978-1-934460-58-0List price: $24.99 / 32.50

Chainmail Bikini is an anthology o comics by and aboutemale gamers! 40 artists contributed comics about the gamesthey’re passionate about— rom video games to table-top role-playing to collectible card games. Te comics in Chainmail

Bikini explore the real-li e impact o entering a antasy world, how games can connect us

with each other and teach us about ourselves.Contributors include indie game creators Anna Anthropy and Merritt Kopas, and indiecomics avorites MK Reed (Palere, Te Cute Girl Network ), Jane Mai (Sunday in the Parkwith Boys, See You Next uesday ), Molly Ostertag (Strong Female Protagonist ), SophieYanow (War o Streets and Houses) and Diana Nock (Poorcraf ). Cover illustration byHellen Jo.

Hazel Newlevant is a cartoonist living in Queens, NY. Her comic Ci Vediamo wasawarded a Xeric Grant, and her graphic novel I Tis Be Sin was awarded the 2013 PrismComics Queer Press Grant.

Chainmail BikiniThe Anthology of Women Gamers

Edited by H zel Newlev nt 204-page black and white paperback In Stores: April 12, 2016

ISBN: 978-1-5136-0012-3List price: $20.00 / $24.99 CAN

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128 pages o stories about amily, nostalgia, chance,witchcraf, sex, abstinence, economy, and revenge. Sciencection in a uture that is already old. Winners is the debut

short collection by Swedish artist Anna Ehrlemark. Anna is well known in Eastern Europeor her unconventional, twisted narratives and her striking visual style. Her comics exploreeminist, queer, and, anti-capitalist themes.

“Starkly beauti ul… Tere’s depth to the comics: Many are unny, with a deeper layer o symbolismand yet another layer o unease. Ehrlemark is the real deal.”—Suzette Smith, Portland Mercury

Anna Ehrlemark is well known in Eastern Europe or her unconventional, twisted narrativesand her striking visual style. Her comics explore eminist, queer, anti-capitalist themes andshe has been published by the Balkan collectives Stripburger, Fijuk, and Komikaze.

Anna Ehrlemark lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Ann Ehrlemak Winners

128-page paperback In Stores: April, 2016ISBN: 978-1-942801-91-7List price: $14.95 / $18.50 CAN

Lou is an 11 year old tomboy growing up in a small,working-class town in New England in the 1990s.

Tis one summer it becomes clear that her brother Eddie’s boss at the pizza shopis mixed up in some unsavory business. Tings become more precarious,until nally Eddie shows up or work to nd his boss Joey has vanished.

Melissa Mendes is a cartoonist living and working in western Massachusetts.She attended Hampshire College rom 2002 to 2006, and received her MFA romthe Center For Cartoon Studies in 2010. Her debut graphic novel,Freddy Stories,was published with help rom a Xeric Grant.

“Mendes’s visuals are accessible and unpretentious with the interplay betweencharacters being particularly def in approach. —Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier

Meliss MendesLou160-page paperback In Stores: April, 2016ISBN: 978-1-68148-520-1List price: $14.95 / $18.50 CAN

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Tim Godyea Video Tonfa

624-page paperback

In Stores: April 2016ISBN: 978-1-942801-93-1List Price: $24.95 USD / $32.50 CADIn 2009, im Goodyear turnedhis sketchbook into a journal othe movies he watched, ocusing

on VHS & DVD or an eclectic & personal lm history. For

each video he redrew the original box art & substituted the textwith his own reections. Video on a is more than a book omovie reviews, it’s a chronic memoir o over 300 video visitations.

im Goodyear is a legend o Pacic Northwest DIY mediawho has been involved with comics, zines, and video or manyyears. (he’s a contributor to Sean Aaberg’s PORK magazine). Hispublishing imprint, eenage Dinosaur, has put out books by MattFurie, Julia G rorer, Dash Shaw and others.

Andre Tsu mi Why Would You Do That?

64-page paperback

ISBN: 978-1-68148-102-9In Stores: April 2016List Price: $10.00 USD / $12.99 CAD

Finding the absurd in everything rom poodles and sports ansto pie and the Civil War, surumi plays with what’s strange andunny about the amiliar in this collection o short comics.

Andrea surumi is a cartoonist and illustrator rom New Yorkwhose work has appeared in Te New York imes, Te Nib, Spongebob Comics, Te Graphic Canon o

Children’s Literature, and Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream . Her comics “Andrew Jackson Trows aPunch” and “Yup/Nope” received a MoCCA Award o Excellence and a Society o Illustrators’ silvermedal, respectively.Te Best American Comics series chose her mini-comic “Dance Party” or its 2013notables list. A graduate o SVA’s MFA Illustration program, she likes her ice cream angry.

“ surumi has made her name in comics and illustration through celebrating the humor o themacabre and the adorable, and her work is ofen metamorphic in nature . . . Let me warn you inadvance that i you are going to read surumi’s books, your dream-li e will probably never be quitethe same again. Tey work their way into the subconscious like a power drill.”

—Hannah Means-Shannon, editor-in-chief at Bleeding Cool

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Jim C mpbell At the Shore 208 page full-color paperback In Stores: June 2016ISBN: 978-1-68148-518-8List price: $19.99 USD / $25.99 CADA group o art students head to the shore, but some-thing sinister is hiding beneath the incoming waves.Bernard, Dean and Jorge look orward to some serious

Frisbee-tossing and are psyched when Astrid shows up to swim, but Gabi is so reaked outshe doesn’t want to leave the car. Why is Gabi demanding they head home be ore dark?Maybe i anyone paid attention to her childhood tales o seaweed harvesting, they’d knowsomething lurks beneath the wavesJim Campbell is a cartoonist, comic book colorist, and animator who is well known or hiswork on Patrick McHale’sOver Te Garden Wall series on Cartoon Network and the comicbooks rom Boom! Studios. Jim has been drawing comics off and on since teaming up withthe Meathaüs collective in 2001. He has been a color artist or Dark Horse, Marvel,Sponge-bob Comics, Mad Magazine, and ony Millionaire or several years. In his spare time, he

plays in the Brooklyn band Paper Fleet.“At Te Shore eatures delight ully bizarre artwork, quirky comedy, a unique style ocharacter development, and an interesting storyline twist.” —Jonathan Lloyd, Punchland

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