Further scenes from the wild world of becoming a girl, including some confused people; some overly helpful people; some sad funny things; some happy funny things. Joey continues to prove that big round heads can be expressive and lovable. It all happened near you, if you live near here.

Walter may be in trouble: he’s in the woods and he’s out of his head. The Reeve and his lady friend may be in trouble: there’s a witch hunt on the way. Life in the Middle Ages is awfully complicated and suspenseful, but you sure will have an interesting time there.

Minty Lewis returns to minicomics! The Fruit Pals—last seen in PS Comics—are still dealing with workplace problems and loneliness, they’re still kind of pathetic, and they’re still giant talking fruit. But something different is in the air, as a public radio pledge drive sends a desperate Apple on a strange adventure of volunteerism where nothing is as it seems... except, maybe, new love. First in a series.

More serene whimsy in the Laterborn mode but with a different title. Jason’s having a pretty good time, even if he’s starting to notice that he’s older than some of the kids these days. Monks with babies, truck drivers in the rain, it’s all good.

AKA, Neely Covers Comics to Give You the Creeps!. Once upon a time, great old-school illustrators drew handsome covers for freaky horror comics. Decades later in a fit of madness, Tom Neely drew his own versions of thirteen of those, and made them... different. They are very nicely done with slinky lines and pretty colors—but GAH! Do not look at these things before you sleep! In fact, just don’t sleep!

Like the opera of the same name which they otherwise have nothing to do with, these comics feature serious timeless tales all smushed together with rude slapstick. Issue 1: Julia meets movie stars, Enkidu the wild man, Saint Francis, Lancelot, and The Doctor. Issue 2: Julia is killed, resurrected, transformed, and hired as a babysitter. Small, gleeful, makes good drawing look easy or vice versa.

This flabbergasting bricklet of a book collects all six issues of the minicomic series documenting a year in the life of a nervous, social, and reasonably productive cat owner and cartoonist, with lots of ridiculously expressive tiny drawings, and guest pages by way too many people to list here. There’s a bonus 5-page epilogue about why it may or may not be useful to make little charts of your moods and what you’re drinking.

A slovenly Conanoid fights and narrates his way through an oddly cerebral little tale of mayhem. Your faith in humanity may not be restored, but it’s funnier than the sack of Troy, and Alixopulos’s goofy/moody art will stick with you.

Said the author: “I used the upcoming Stumptown Comics Festival as an excuse to scrawl out this sloppy zine, all about the cuisinal arts!” But (a) when Vanessa scrawls something, it just looks like it was totally supposed to be that way, (b) there are some really good recipes in here, and (c) fun fun fun. Please heed her warning about the toffee Matzoh Crack.

A parent, a child, a Chinese restaurant, and a conversation loaded with years of unease. Dream-like little slice of life done in sinuous gray-tone paintings.

Very silly sketchbook of watercolor and colored pencil drawings of people who aren’t doctors but play them on TV, as they might appear if they chose to do other things instead. Will it help you realize your own aspirations? We can only hope.

One of the most unsettling things we’ve ever had here. The title story involves a small rat-man who, after turning into a huge man-rat, falls under the spell of a sinister derelict troll; this alternates with various little strips about loneliness, murder, magic, and rather sweet childhood recollections. There’s a good deal of physical and emotional yuck depicted, but Keck clearly really likes drawing, so it’s fun. Where’s he going with this? What happens next?? Also, very nice screenprinted covers.