Since 2003, Global Hobo has been distributing hand-made and hard-to-find comics(*) that we think are unusually good. We sell them here online and at events, and we sell wholesale to stores. If you make a comic you want us to consider, please see our submission guidelines.

Some independent comics distributors who inspired us and are sadly no longer around include John P’s Spit and a Half, Berkeley’s Puppy Toss collective, and the USS Catastrophe Shop. There are still other good places to find comics online, like Bodega, Secret Acres, Partyka, Scubotch, and Poopsheet.

Global Hobo is currently run by Eli Bishop, with help from Jesse Reklaw. Many people have contributed their time and talent to make it happen, especially Josh Frankel, Andy Hartzell, Steve Lafler, Tom Neely, and Thien Pham. The website programming is by Eli Bishop; original site design and art by Josh Frankel; logo by Andy Hartzell; website copy by Trevor Alixopulos, Andrice Arp, Eli Bishop, Austin English, Jon Lewis, Thien Pham, Jesse Reklaw, and Karen Sneider.

Thanks for visiting the store, and happy browsing.

* Wait a minute: what does “hand-made and hard-to-find” mean, anyway? Is this a minicomic store or what?

Some people say “minicomic” is a size, some say it’s just a DIY state of mind. Some of our books are big, some are tiny. “Hand-made” here means anything more aggravating than just having a printer do it: some books have hand-printed covers, others may have computer-printed covers but the artist had to cut them to size and staple them together; the insides are usually xeroxed, with some fancy exceptions. Check the letter codes in the book listings to see what’s what.

We do have a few commercially published squarebound books that are neither hand-made nor necessarily hard to find. That usually means that an artist we already liked for their handmade stuff got a book deal and the publisher gave them some extra copies to resell.