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  • Cover image for The Weakly Dispatch

    The Weakly Dispatch

    $20.00

    A pandemic time capsule by a celebrated underground cartoonist. When COVID-19 hit Montreal, cartoonist Rick Trembles started The Weakly Dispatch, a series of diary comics offering his personal perspective on pandemic life. Trembles’ asthma put him at risk of a serious infection so, like many people, he took careful measures to avoid coming into contact…

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    Art Life

    $20.00

    Runner-up at the 2021 Expozine Awards: Best English Comic category Catherine Ocelot wonders about her place as an artist, digging into the layers of what it means to live this Art Life. In her search for answers, she talks with seven artists from different disciplines who express their doubts, their struggles, their ambitions and their…

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  • Release: A NICU Fairytale

    Release: A NICU Fairytale

    $29.99

    Once upon a time, expecting parents planned the birth of their daughter just like every other family. However, circumstances unforeseen around the child’s health led to a birth unimagined. The reality felt unbelievable. The only way to understand what happened is through fairytale. A spell casted on the baby girl kept the child locked away…

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  • Art of the Candy Gang: Chet Pickens Comics

    Art of the Candy Gang: Chet Pickens Comics

    $24.99

    Personal biography of cartoonist Chet Pickens that includes personal drawings, pictures and other information. This book includes original newspaper funnies, drawings of posters and comic layouts.

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  • Pursuit: A collection of artwork

    Pursuit: A collection of artwork

    $15.99

    It is said you need 10,000 hours to master a skill. For an artist, that can mean countless sketches, drawings, scribbles on the sides of restaurant napkins as you fine tune your style and discover your creative voice. With Pursuit animator Lianne Cruz (V1 Interactive, Sucker Punch Productions, Bethesda Game Studios) pulls back the curtain…

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  • River Never Smooth: Reclaiming Power After Abuse

    River Never Smooth: Reclaiming Power After Abuse

    $38.99

    Despite being abused, Angelique kept going back because she mistook abuse for love. Sound familiar? Abusive relationships have not been relegated to the past. They are still prevalent today among the rich and poor, male and female, old and young, people from every country, every race, and every walk of life. Angelique Castor falls for…

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  • Cover image for Father and Son Issues: The Secret History of Spider-Man

    Father and Son Issues: The Secret History of Spider-Man

    $29.99

    An incredibly fun-and necessary!-deep dive into one of American comics’ most important, influential, and underappreciated artistic dynasties” –Fred Van Lente, six-time New York Times bestselling author, The Comic Book History of Comics FATHER AND SON ISSUES: The Secret History of Spider-Man is the true story of someone with a great power, and a great responsibility….

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    High Shining Brass

    $16.99

    From HARVEY AWARD nominee and award winning writer and artist Don Lomax. Based on the true story of an American spy in Vietnam as told to Don Lomax by agent Robert Durand who chronicles the tale. Durand was a member of a black-ops team, code-named “Shining Brass.” This graphic novel depicts the horrific atrocities witnessed…

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    A Fade of Light

    $19.99

    An intimate and moving graphic memoir by cartoonist Nate Fakes, dedicated to his stepdad Ron, a larger-than-life personality who gradually becomes affected by a rare form of dementia. Editor’s Picks, Honorable Mention at Publishers Weekly‘s US Book Show “A Fade of Light is a rare story that is both deeply heartbreaking and heartwarming. Nate Fakes…

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  • Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag

    Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag

    $16.95

    Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in the first of three painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels.

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    White house

    $14.99

    A few hours later Riti heard a raspy knock on the door. Two heavily built men entered the office and found Riti at his desk, rubbing his chin which was beginning to sprout hair. Due to the general acute food shortage most people in town were skinny but the two strangers looked well fed and…

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    Switch: Time for a Change

    $14.95

    Sandra is living proof that you can do anything you want, at any age, and that you can follow your passion no matter what it is. Sandra’s journey through life will challenge all your assumptions about middle-aged or ‘older’ women. Her sexual evolution will make you want to embark on your OWN sexual evolution. This…

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    Self-Portraits of the Apocalypse: Shelter-in-Place

    $89.95

    Self-Portraits of the Apocalypse is a 100 day illustrated pandemic-adventure-in-place. What began as a drawing-a-day crutch to get through the beginning of shelter-in-place orders in 2020 turned into a marathon of art and writing about very relatable coping mechanisms, happy moments, and shared struggles. The book runs the gamut from dealing with more personal topics…

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  • Released: The Uncertainty Principle

    Released: The Uncertainty Principle

    $8.00

    Released is a meditation on losing an object and gaining a thing. It was written to accompany an artwork for the exhibition The Uncertainty Principle (Canberra, ANCA Gallery, 2018). It combines memoir, philosophy, statistics and uncertainty, pivoting on a a simple pine kitchen table that holds memories of a key family moment.

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  • Cover image for Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

    Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

    $24.00

    ARAB humanist is a story of an Arab woman, LouLou, who rebelled against her family while living in America. LouLou wanted to claim her own independence and womanhood but was crippled by her naivety, poverty, lack of a good social safety net, and other misfortunes. The intention of this story is not to demonize the…

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