Synopses & Reviews
This issue features several of our favorite alternative comic artists of the last 15 years, bringing us great joy. Archer Prewitt is the first, with an all-new Funny Bunny strip created in between his active musical career. The Moolah Tree is the new Fuzz & Pluck graphic novel from Ted Stearn, following Fuzz & Pluck and Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville, beginning serialization here. We are equally proud to debut new work from Renee French, whose work is also featured on the front and back cover of this issue. And Nicholas Mahler debuts to ask What Is Art? (translated by secret weapon Kim Thompson). Also: the second chapter of T. Edward Bak's Wild Man-The Strange Journey-and Fantastic Accounts-of the Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, from Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond); a new Cold Heat story by the team of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and Jon Vermilyea; Dash Shaw interprets an episode of Blind Date into comics form; and new stories from Lilli Carre, Conor O'Keefe, Laura Park, Nate Neal, and Sara Edward-Corbett, with incidental drawings by Kaela Graham.
Since its inception in 2005, MOME has served as a McSweeney's for comics. Whether exposing new talent like Eleanor Davis (author of the recent Stinky by Toon Books); featuring short stories by contemporary graphic novelists like Dash Shaw (The Bottomless Belly Button); bringing the work of international superstars like David B. (Epileptic) to American audiences; or introducing the work of legends like Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) to a new generation of readers, MOME is the most acclaimed, accessible, frequent, and reasonably priced anthology on the market despite its high production values and mostly color format.
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"If the world of alt-comics feels appealing but intimidatingly vast (what doesn't these days), is the perfect place to start.... The volume is thick, slick and printed in what looks like Technicolor. An anthology is only as good as the sensibilities of those who compile it, of course, so it's worth noting that a subscription of MOME equals four issues per year of work culled from the depths by an outfit that not only has keen vision in such matters, but also a stake in finding the very best. What's not to trust?" Publishers Weekly - "The Beat"
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"It must be said, of all the art comix anthologies, is probably the most perfect distillation. Sometimes evolution works." Heidi MacDonald
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"[L]ike the rest of Fantagraphics' spectacular catalogue of books, takes some of the most exciting talent around in comics at the moment (both Paul Hornschemeier and Dash Shaw feature in this volume [Vol. 15], for example), adds some raw talent that you might not have heard of, and collates it into a cutting-edge anthology. An excellent taster in bite-sized portions for those who want to experiment with a range of sophisticated comics artists without breaking the bank." Molly Young We Love You So
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"The current multi-artist series that has critics in the comics world and outside of it regularly amped.... The last few issues of have really hit a hot-run of quality, and though some stories are more straightforward and others are expressionistic, all the art is always sweet." Grovel
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"For fresh talent in comics, you have to go to the anthologies and there's none better at the moment than ... the highlight [of Vol. 15] is Dash Shaw's hallucinatory story about a tidal wave, which uses swaths of colour and elongated panels to create a sense of vertigo." Chris Estey KEXP-FM, Seatte
Synopsis
Also: the second chapter of T. Edward Bak's "Wild Man The Strange Journey and Fantastic Accounts of the Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, from Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond)"; a new "Cold Heat" story by the team of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and Jon Vermilyea; Dash Shaw interprets an episode of "Blind Date" into comics form; and new stories from Lilli Carre, Conor O'Keefe, Laura Park, Nate Neal, and Sara Edward-Corbett, with incidental drawings by Kaela Graham. Since its inception in 2005, MOME has served as a McSweeney s for comics. Whether exposing new talent like Eleanor Davis (author of the recent Stinky by Toon Books); featuring short stories by contemporary graphic novelists like Dash Shaw (The Bottomless Belly Button); bringing the work of international superstars like David B. (Epileptic) to American audiences; or introducing the work of legends like Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) to a new generation of readers, MOME is the most acclaimed, accessible, frequent, and reasonably priced anthology on the market despite its high production values and mostly color format. "
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Since its inception in 2005, Mome has overlapped the contemporary graphic novel scene, the literary world, and the graphic arts community by serving as a McSweeney's of comics for those who want a vibrant, quarterly sampler of the best the medium has to offer. Whether exposing new talent like Eleanor Davis (author of the recent Stinky by Toon Books) or Tom Kaczynski; featuring short stories by contemporary graphic novelists like Dash Shaw (The Bottomless Belly Button) or Paul Hornschemeier (The Three Paradoxes); bringing the work of international superstars like David B. (Epileptic) or Killoffer (676 Apparitions of Killoffer) to American audiences; or introducing the work of legends like Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) to a new generation of readers, Mome is the most acclaimed, accessible, frequent, and reasonably priced anthology on the market despite its high production values and mostly color format.
Synopsis
This issue features several of our favorite alternative comic artists of the last 15 years, bringing us great joy. Archer Prewitt is the first, with an all-new "Funny Bunny" strip created in between his active musical career. "The Moolah Tree" is the new Fuzz & Pluck graphic novel from Ted Stearn, following and , beginning serialization here. We are equally proud to debut new work from Renée French, whose work is also featured on the front and back cover of this issue. And Nicholas Mahler debuts to ask "What Is Art?" (translated by secret weapon Kim Thompson). Also: the second chapter of T. Edward Bak's "Wild Man--The Strange Journey--and Fantastic Accounts--of the Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, from Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond)"; a new "Cold Heat" story by the team of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and Jon Vermilyea; Dash Shaw interprets an episode of "Blind Date" into comics form; and new stories from Lilli Carré, Conor O'Keefe, Laura Park, Nate Neal, and Sara Edward-Corbett, with incidental drawings by Kaela Graham. Since its inception in 2005, has served as a 's for comics. Whether exposing new talent like Eleanor Davis (author of the recent by Toon Books); featuring short stories by contemporary graphic novelists like Dash Shaw (); bringing the work of international superstars like David B. () to American audiences; or introducing the work of legends like Gilbert Shelton () to a new generation of readers, is the most acclaimed, accessible, frequent, and reasonably priced anthology on the market despite its high production values and mostly color format.
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It brings us great joy to welcome Archer Prewitt, Ted Stearn (new Fuzz & Pluck!), Ren
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