"KELLY"
by Dan Goldman
A brain-blistering psychedelic romance between three people's conflicting interior landscapes in a tiny shared Manhattan apartment.
Desperate for a place to live, jilted lover Max takes refuge with Kelly, an enigmatic middle-aged stoner whose bizarre daily habits and half-baked mystical leanings spiral them both down a vortex of wisdom and danger.
091101
by Dean Haspiel
This is how I first experienced 9/11. Originally published in Alternative Comics' 9-11: EMERGENCY RELIEF
A MESS OF EVERYTHING
by Miss Lasko-Gross
Four short stories from the upcoming Fantagraphics release A Mess Of Everything. "Mess" Picks up where
the Yalsa nominated Escape From Special left off.
A MID-AUTUMN NIGHT'S DREAM
by Robin Ha
A tale of a lost man in the enchanted forest. Happy belated Halloween!
A NEW ELEGANT UNIVERSE
by Ulises Farinas
A New Elegant Universe is a wondrous place of strange lands! It is Ulises Farinas' experiment of "encyclopedic fiction", a story telling system that pushes details before drama and encourages the creation of characters and stories in a biological, organic fashion.
These are a collection of short stories, illustrations and comics that are all interconnected and explore the vast depths of this wo
A-OKAY COOL
by Dean Haspiel
A-OKAY COOL originally appeared in AdHouse Books' PROJECT: SUPERIOR in 2004, and is BILLY DOGMA'S favorite superhero team.
ADVENTURES OF THE FLOATING ELEPHANT
by Tim Hamilton
History.
Your ancestors lived it.
Some of them were idiots.
AGGRO
by Simon Fraser
Don't piss-off the Gorilla with the M60!
ANGEL
by Dean Haspiel
THE ANGEL portrays the feelings of a cosmic deity as he grieves over a lost love and discovers the bridge to a better tomorrow.
"The Angel" was first published in South Brooklyn's OVERFLOW [#6].
ASK GHOST PIMP
by Maurice Fontenot
Do you feel like no one's there to help guide you through this mystery called life?
Then there’s only one man who can help you. A pimp murdred in 1974 by his own hoes. THE GHOST PIMP. A certified mack-ologist, ass-smacker and accountant, Cootie Brown is here to teach you how to slap life right in the mouth and make it your bitch!
ASS MEAT
by Simon Fraser
A short story about Meat and Cowboys & Indians.
AYN RAND
by Darryl Cunningham
The story of the first lady of logic.
BACKSTAGE
by Molly Crabapple
Co-authors: John Leavitt
Letterist: Howard Des ChenesIt's 1904 New York and tabloids rule the day. But when the queen of vaudeville suffers spontaneuous combustion onstage, two muckracking reporters must find out if it was an accident...or murder.
Backstage is a tale of sex, death and celebrity at the dawn of the 20th century
BARNEY BANKS: EXTRA LIFE!
by Tom Hart
Barney Banks finds himself in a campground full of crazy kids. He runs around trying to impress the kids, make time with the camp's beneficent guardian, and basically restart his life. Good luck to him!
BEANBOTS
by Kevin Kobasic
Kids, eh? You know. That whole thing.
BEE IN: "MOTEL ART IMPROVEMENT SERVICE" (EXCERPT)
by Jason Little
When Bee's plan to bike solo across the country is derailed she cools her heels in a rural motel. There she meets Cyrus, an itinerant hotel-housekeeper and guerilla artist. Did I mention that he's hot? Cyrus is hot. And Bee is a girl with an agenda that requires hot guys.
BILLY DOGMA IN "DEJA VOODOO"
by Simon Fraser
Co-authors: Dan Goldman, Michel FiffeBilly Dogma love his Mummy
He loves Jane Legit too...but mostly his Mummy.
This is a Parody of Dean Haspiel's Eisner nominated 'Immortal' and 'Fear My Dear'
BILLY DOGMA IN FEAR, MY DEAR
by Dean Haspiel
Billy Dogma uncovers the horror of an eighth "deadly sin" and travels to the heart of his mind to face the truth of his past...and his future.
This is Part 2 of the BILLY DOGMA TRILOGY
BILLY DOGMA IN IMMORTAL
by Dean Haspiel
Billy Dogma & Jane Legit send their hearts and their town into a tailspin when their pathological War of Woo unearths the chaos of a cosmic deity.
This is Part 1 of the BILLY DOGMA TRILOGY.
IMMORTAL was nominated for a 2008 Eisner award for Best Digital Comic.
BILLY DOGMA IN SEX PLANET
by Dean Haspiel
A romantic interlude inside a cave proves more than the earth can handle when Billy Dogma and Jane Legit recreate.
BORB
by Jason Little
This daily comic strip details the tragic slapstick life of Borb, a homeless man. Bust a gut at his ghastly mortifications of the flesh. Updates six days a week, Monday through Saturday.
BUS STOP MANIFESTO
by ACT-I-VATRIX ...
Writer: Michael Woods
Artist: Eduardo MedeirosThere were these 2 men , waiting for a bus...
CARTOON BOY
by John Kerschbaum
A fun weekly adventure filled with hot Cartoon Boy action!
COME THE DAWN
by Jim Dougan
Co-authors: Hyeondo Park
DROCKLEBERRY
by Andrew Dimitt
Jellybean Peel has a mother who drinks too much and a father who must‘ve been dropped on his head as a baby. Her grandfather has become a cyclopean bug and a boy she kissed in grade school is becoming a god. And if that wasn’t enough, her childhood imaginary friend and a brother she’s never met are sharing an apartment & have a nasty craving for human flesh.
EASY PIECES
by Neil Dvorak
Have you ever felt perfectly balanced? Do your relationships blossom in perfect simultaneity? Does your gut align harmoniously with your brain, gifting you with limitless ability to make decisions? Have you, in living the years you have lived, experienced no discernible contradiction in advice received? Ah, but I could ask these questions forever...
SO I WILL.
ERNEST SHACKLETON
by Nick Bertozzi
Shackleton and five of his men make a desperate journey across the Antarctic Sea, eight-hundred miles from civilization.
EVERYWHERE
by Chris Miskiewicz
You wake up to find that millions of animals have appeared EVERYWHERE around the world at the same moment. What happened and what does it mean when the natural world has gone wrong?
EVERYWHERE, a monthly web-comic anthology based on a concept by writer Chris Miskiewicz and Andrew Wendel, will be published exclusively at ACT-I-VATE.
FALLUJAH
by Nick Bertozzi
Creator: The SVA Storytelling WorkshopFALLUJAH is a series of comics about the Iraq War written and drawn by the students of my Storytelling Workshop at The School of Visual Arts. The stories represent the multiple points-of-view of those engaged and affected by the Battles for Fallujah that took place between 2003 and 2004. Like the IRAQ WAR ANTHOLOGY, the goal of these comics is not to wave a flag for any cause but to tell the stori
FARSEEKER
by Len OGrady
Co-authors: Dirk ManningAbducted from their various worlds, a rag-tag group of other-worldly strangers have been charged with a cosmic quest by a mysterious and mischievous imp who claims they are destined to save the world... but he won't tell them how! Intelligent yet all-age-friendly fantasy in the vein of The Magnificent Seven and The Hobbit, FARSEEKER updates weekly every Friday.
FEVER DREAM.
by Kat Roberts
Sometimes autobio & sometimes fictitious, these short stories depict everything from the mundane to the absurd.
FISHTOWN
by Kevin Colden
A chilling portrait of an unthinkable crime. Preview chapter of the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel.
FLOAT
by Ryan Roman
Co-authors: written by David P. GoodfellowA story about a boy and his dream...
FLOWING WELLS
by Andrew Dimitt
There was a time when Flowing Wells was the busiest, bounciest, most celebrated social-network and simulated global-township ever invented. In fact, it was so very busy, so very bouncy and was so celebrated that It wasn’t very long before the whole world was swept up by full out war between absolute anarchy and the perfect summer vacation vanishing lovingly at both ends.
FREDRICK FREDRICK "THE AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL"
by Ryan Roman
GANG OF FOOLS
by James Smith
Aditi's got one week to come up with ten grand for rent. Diane needs a cool condo in a hot neighborhood to boost her Q rating. Paul simply cannot keep it in his pants. Ishmael's keeping a secret from his own dancehall revolutionaries. Laila's autobiographical porno has attracted the Russian mob, and Mr Chips hates you. Yes, yes he does.
GHOST PIMP
by Maurice Fontenot
Murdered in 1974, Cootie Brown is sent back to Earth by God to teach guys how to keep their hoes in check!
GIRL MERCURY
by Ulises Farinas
Cybernetic Teenager seeking employment with select corporate clientele, needing private protection, delivery of sensitive materials, or covert information insurance.
Also seeking research grants to continue work in "hard-light" sciences and practical experimentation of personal-armored suit carriers.
GLAM
by Pedro Camargo
A rabbit leaves the safety of his candyland home and ventures to a dark mega city overrun with violence and crime in order to save his best friend.
GOLDEN CAMPAIGN
by Cristian Ortiz
Co-authors: Daniel Martin
Caligraphy: Alice MazzilliGolden Campaign is actually an autobiographical story hidden in the metaphor of an ongoing fantasy series set in a world replete with political intrigue and mechanical military manoeuvring. Its initial inspiration comes from creator Cristian Ortiz’s own experiences coming to Europe as a teenager and beginning a new life, echoed in this first volume by his central character arriving at the slight
GRAPHIC NYC PRESENTS: DEAN HASPIEL THE EARLY YEARS PREVIEW
by Seth Kushner
The low-down on the revolutionary indy artist, from his salad days
working for Howard Chaykin on American Flagg! to his digital days
spearheading the ACT-I-VATE web-collective. The creators of GNYC
bring you Dino's early Billy Dogma and semi-autobio comics
presented against the framework of Chris Irving's new comics
journalism and Seth Kushner and Ryan Roman's photography.
This trade fea
HAIRKUT
by Dan Goldman
Jun Takeshi, content producer for the online-implant channel FeedFood, leaves his office in a futuristic Manhattan in quest of the peace and quiet that only a very bad haircut can bring.
HAVE YOU SEEN HER?
by Dean Haspiel
Something was very wrong with me in 2001 when I wrote/drew this creepy tale of misanthropic woe for DRAWN BITS, a now defunct magazine. I don't know how much further I've come but let's just say that admitting my problems in public is the first step towards...um...recovery?
HEBI NO HADA
by Rami Efal
A silent story of a silent song, a silent woman and a silent hunger. Listen. What do you hear?
HIPPY DAYS
by Sam Henderson
Growing Up in Woodstock, NY in the 70s
HOW I BUILT MY FATHER
by Rob Davis
First in a series of short stories, How I Built My Father takes its premise from the idea that parents are created by children.
HURRICANE WILMA
by ACT-I-VATRIX ...
Co-authors: Omar AnguloOmar Angulo is a big fat jerk. A graphic artist, illustrator, designer and noise maker documentarian with the ability to draw from a wide array of influences like film, music, history, subculture, rocket science and brain surgery.
Based in Miami, Florida, Omar Angulo's art is a graphic combination of mark making, music, comics, film and design. Since the 1990's he has collaborated with artists,
I CAME AS A RAT
by Nathan Schreiber
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
by Glynnis Fawkes
Stranded in the strange land of Tauris, working for a goddess who demands human sacrifice, Iphigenia is sure her brother is dead. Orestes, hounded by the furies, is driven to Tauris to steal the statue of the goddess. Will Iphigenia kill her long lost brother before they recognize each other? Since this play by Euripides is 2000 years old, it is not difficult to find out.
IRAQ WAR STORIES
by Nick Bertozzi
"What's happening over there?" Edited by Nick Bertozzi. Adapted and drawn by students of the SVA Comic Book Storytelling Workshop from true stories told by Americans and Iraqis.
JACK & MAX ESCAPE FROM THE END OF TIME
by Mike Dawson
JERSEY GODS: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR
by Joe Infurnari
Writer: Mark Waid
Letterer: Rus WootonWritten by Mark Waid and illustrated by Joe Infurnari, TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR is a four part backup story beginning in JERSEY GODS #3. To read beyond this preview please visit your local comic book store on April 1st, 2009 to purchase your own copy of JERSEY GODS #3.
LILLY MACKENZIE & THE TREASURE OF PAROS
by Simon Fraser
Colourist: Gary CaldwellThe sequel to Lilly Mackenzie & the Mines of Charybdis. The secrets of Lillys's parents throw a long shadow over the past, the present and the future.
LILLY MACKENZIE AND THE MINES OF CHARYBDIS
by Simon Fraser
Colourist: Gary Caldwell
Lettering: Simon BowlandLilly Mackenzie Book 1
Lilly Mackenzie and her best buddy Cosmo Judd, with nothing but their wits and their friendship, attempt a desperate rescue mission to Charybdis, the Hell Planet!
This is the re-edited and extended version from the Judge Dredd Megazine.
LIONEL
by Josh Neufeld
Co-authors: Dean HaspielThe narrative corpse "Lionel's Lament" is an unscripted impromptu dynamic dialogue between the Keyhole team of Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld.
Lionel wakes up one morning to an unpleasant surprise. From that point on, his adventures feature unparalleled depths of agony and personal humiliation.
The story begins with an episode by Neufeld, episode 2 is by Haspiel, and so on.
LOVE & ZOMBIES
by Ryan Roman
It's about two guys who love and hate each other alot. And how they try to make it through a zombie apocalypse.
It's fun.
LOVE & ZOMBIES 2
by Ryan Roman
Love and faith in the face of a zombie viral apocalypse.
Oh, and some weird shit happens along the way.
MACHISMO MONITOR
by Jim Dougan
Co-authors: Roger Langridge
MAKING "NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE"
by Rami Efal
2005 => Idea.
2010 => Book.
Follow how "Never Forget, Never Forgive" came to be.
MONTAGUE TERRACE
by Warren Pleece
Unsuccessful megalomaniacs, brain frazzled ex-pop stars, Special Ops pensioners, haunted children, writers, fighters, nervous magicians and magic bunnies. 1930s detectives, fake pet psychics, hounded inventors, randy postmen, landlocked seamen, diabolical architects and secret societies. And all under one roof...
MOSQUITO BEACH
by Robin Ha
This is sort of a continuation of a short comic I did for Strumpet #2 which was about traveling. Check out the anthology at http://strumpetcomic.com.
This comic is about my experience traveling in Puerto Rico with couple of friends when I was in college.
MOTRO
by Ulises Farinas
This is a tale of one chubby boy with beautiful hair growing into a chubby man with beautiful hair. He will fight square ice lions, giant beasts of the lands and seas, and transcend reality!!!
It is a very nice story.
MUGWHUMP THE GREAT
by Roger Langridge
Vaudeville relic Mugwhump the Great lives by the maxim "The Show Must Go On!" -- but this is a show that would be better put out of its misery. (And that Billy Woodentop, he's no help at all!)
MY FAMILY AND OTHER GYPSIES
by Rob Davis
Conceived last year as part of the comics-meets-human-rights RESPECT campaign, whereby comics are distributed free to kids in Russia. For my topic I focused on my family background, how it connected to racist attitudes and how racial stereotypes persist.
NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE
by Rami Efal
Amidst a bloody clan war, widower Samurai Oda struggles with raising his spirited teenage daughter Ryoan and his seven-year-old son Kaimen. When the enemy lord's daughters are captured and paraded through town, Ryoan sets off to liberate them, an act that forces Oda, his children and their clan to face old lies that divide... and older truths that may ultimately unite.
NIHILARITY
by Shannon Wheeler
A collection of these comics is nominated for an Eisner. They're gag cartoons rejected by the New Yorker magazine.
NOMBRIL
by Leland Purvis
a geologic fable
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD!
by Scott Shaw!
ONE PLUS ONE
by Paul Peart-Smith
A man walks into an office building....
ORIFICE
by Jennifer Tong
PANELS FOR PRIMATES
by Troy Wilson (editor)
Co-authors: See comments field for creator credits.Panels for Primates is a charity anthology for the Primate Rescue Center, featuring an eclectic mix of primate stories by both well-known and up-and-coming creators. Please view the comments field beneath each page for the relevant creator credits. Robert Wilson IV drew the cover and the donation reminder page, as well as designing the logo. Dean Trippe colored the cover.
PECAN SANDY
by Nick Bertozzi
Whimsy with a heaping spoonful of sass.
PERSIMMON CUP
by Nick Bertozzi
Color Assistance: Chris SindersonA fantastical tale.
PET SITTER
by Tim Hamilton
Small dog,
big gangster
and some times a little bird
POINTS DE VUE, NOUVELLES DU MONDE
by Josh Neufeld
As part of a program put on by the Lyon-based French "international creative research laboratory" Les Subsistances. For three days, myself and a group of other creative spirits create “on the spot” evening news bulletins in response to the events of the day (as reported by Agence France Press).
POLE THE COMIC STRIP WITH PENGUINS
by Thomas Baehr
I created the strip “POLE” in 2005. It was first published in the same year by the New York Press.
Since then, the penguins were published in newspapers, magazines, books, and the Internet in the USA and in Europe.
POPGUN VOL.2 PREVIEW
by Dean Haspiel
A preview of POPGUN Vol. 2 [Image Comics] showcasing original comix by Ulises Farinas, Michel Fiffe, Dean Haspiel, Tim Hamilton, Dan Goldman, Paul Maybury, and Nikki Cook
POWER OUT
by Nathan Schreiber
Fourteen and friendless, Justin doesn't want to run away from his family - he wants them to run away from him. A massive, extended power out grants him his wish, but now Justin is forced to interact with a world he has always ignored.
A dreamlike coming of age story, Power Out captures the exhilaration and terror of discovering how big the world is for the first time.
PREGNANT BUTCH
by A.K. Summers
PREGNANT BUTCH is the semi-autobiographical story of a butch dyke enduring that most deeply feminizing of processes--pregnancy.
REST STOP
by Jim Dougan
Co-authors: Michel Fiffe
SAM & LILAH
by Jim Dougan
Co-authors: Hyeondo ParkSam and Lilah are fashionable urban twentysomethings whose budding love affair is imperiled by forces beyond their control. Manga-inspired modern mythology. Slice of life meets the supernatural - in Technicolor.
SCHMUCK
by Kevin Colden
Co-authors: Seth KushnerSCHMUCK chronicles the journey of Adam Kessler, a young man on the road from man-boyhood to actual adulthood. The tale follows the main character on a comical journey of blind dates, internet connections, break-ups, and the all-to-often ridiculously painful situations he must endure on his quest to grow up and find love in New York City.
SEALED BY LAURA LEE GULLEDGE
by ACT-I-VATRIX ...
'SEALED - Growing up Tupperware' is a 16pp comic by Laura Lee Gulledge for 'The Big Feminist BUT' - an anthology edited by Shannon O'Leary, Joan Reilly, and Suzanne Kleid.
SETH KUSHNER'S CULTUREPOP
by Seth Kushner
Photocomix Profiles of Real-Life Characters
SLEAZY PIZZA
by Ryan Roman
In the beginning, there were two guys who fell in love. And then one of 'em f*cked it up, but good. What we got here is the beginning of it all...
SPACE SUCKS
by Pedro Camargo
A seemingly derranged space Captain. Space babies. A mysterious mission. Time runs short, the captain stops for no one.
SUMFIN' SILLY!
by Nathan Schreiber
Silly Comics for a Silly World!
TEAS KID, MOJ BRAT
by Igor Kordey
Co-authors: Darko Macan
TEXAS KID, MON FRERE
by Igor Kordey
Co-authors: Darko Macan
TEXAS KID, MY BRO
by Igor Kordey
Co-authors: Darko MacanIt\'s not easy to kill a comic character...
THE ACT-I-VATE PRIMER PREVIEW
by ACT-I-VATRIX ...
A preview of the Harvey Award nominated, THE ACT-I-VATE PRIMER, published by IDW.
THE BLACK FEATHER FALLS
by Ellen Lindner
Flat color: Andrea Kendrick
Art assistance: Kat FajardoWhen Tina Swift, a young American woman living in London, stumbles upon brutalized corpse of a Great War amputee, it seems like the horrors of the trenches are still alive in 1920s London. Her discovery of a strange clue - a black feather - seems to suggest that a message is being sent. But to whom, and why? Tina will traverse newspaper offices, bohemian salons, and the furthest reaches of the B
THE END IS HERE
by Thomas Baehr
“I’m not out to save the world. It’s already too late.”
Peter Caine
THE FIST
by Darryl Cunningham
The libertarian superhero known as The Fist brings justice to the streets in his own charming way.
THE GOLEM'S VOICE
by David G Klein
Separated from his older brother as they flee the Nazis, Yakov encounters the legendary Golem of Prague. The Golem and Yakov make a connection, and through “voices unheard” Yakov discovers his own inner resources and capacity for sacrifice. Together they evade the Nazis and aid others.
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED
by Dov Torbin
A first hand account of the recent Egyptian revolution as told by cartoonist, Dov Torbin.
It tells the story of two American travelers who, through clouds of tear gas, watch a country evolve and find themselves altered by the experience.
THE STREETS OF SAN DIABLO
by Darryl Cunningham
The continuing adventures of Super Sam and John of the Night. Having been killed in a previous adventure, Sam and John find themselves in San Diablo: a town in the afterlife which stands on the borders of Hell.
The complete previous adventure can be read on the Forbidden Planet blog: http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/sam-john/
THE TORTURER'S GARDEN
by Rob Davis
2nd in a series of short stories. This one is a about the endless cycle of bullying and abuse and where it ends.
THE TRANSMIGRATION OF ULTRA-LAD!
by Joe Infurnari
For 50 years, ULTRA-lad has protected New Crown City from the villainous likes of Gro-bot, Blamazon and the Humongulus. Now he will go face to face against the greatest foe he's never known…his alter-ego!
THE VAGABONDS
by Josh Neufeld
Quirky vignettes about travel, baseball, Vietnam, movies, steroids, and 9/11.
TROOP 142
by Mike Dawson
UNCLE BOB AND THE MARTIAN INVASION
by Darryl Cunningham
A chapter from Uncle Bob Adventures which will be out from Blank Slate publishing in 2011.
UNCLE BOB ON SKULL ISLAND
by Darryl Cunningham
Chapter from the book Uncle Bob Adventures. A 150 year old man tells tales of his long and adventurous life.
UNDERWIRE
by Jennifer Hayden
Here\'s the wisdom that comes with wearing an underwire--and you don\'t have to own a bra to enjoy it! These stories are about the little things that give us the big picture. UNDERWIRE--the collected webstrips, plus seventeen new pages of comix and art--was published in 2011 by Top Shelf.
UPLIFT THE POSITIVICALS
by Tim Hall
Artist: Jen FergusonText-based comics, fontasies, soul sutras and shredded prose, rendered in bold, binary alphabetics.
V&V COVER ART
by Leland Purvis
VS.
by Joe Infurnari
Co-authors: Alexis SottileThe Eisner Nominated short story for the Next Door Neighbor Webomix Series at SMITH Magazine.
VULCAN & VISHNU
by Leland Purvis
The travels and travails of two honest workmen, devising their way around obstacles and through calamities on their way to fortune and glory.
WATER
by Thomas Baehr
Writer: Thorsten NeschA fable.
A 2-pages short story I did in 1994 (!!) together with writer and filmmaker Thorsten Nesch (www.thorsten-nesch.com).
WHATZIT
by Gideon Kendall
Pimples, the scourge of adolescents everywhere, are actually portals into this reality through which creatures from another dimension derive voyeuristic pleasure. WHATZIT is the story of a creature from this alien world and an American teenager and how their fates intertwine. It is a tale of adolescent angst, action, adventure and acne.
ZERO-THE RETURN
by Ryan Roman
A silly little hero, forced to grow up.
