At The Secret Headquarters:

• The rest of this month: art from Henry and Glenn Forever, a hilarious artifact by several people including Tom Neely.
  
• June 4: opening reception for “Primal Donna”, art by Vanessa Davis.

Catching up with more of the SF Bay Area crew...

• Just So You Know #2 by Joey Sayers. There are a few moments in this one that are a little sad. But it turned out happy!
  
• The Natural World #3 by Damien Jay. Visually wild and it’s getting kind of scary now— the witch hunt seems to be on.
  
• Salad Days by Minty Lewis. Minty returns to the field she pioneered in PS Comics: anthropomorphic fruit having problems. Except this time there’s a gorilla, and a little hope.
  
• Black Tea #3 by Jason Martin. More slices of life from a quiet guy who likes being alive.

OK, time to catch up now and there’s a whole lot of stuff, so it won’t all fit on the front page. And there’s more on the way soon. Books books books.

• Ten Thousand Things to Do, the book, by Jesse Reklaw. Collects issues 1-6 of the mini plus a little bit more. My, it’s handsome.
  
• Neely Covers Comics to Give You the Creeps!, hereafter known as Neely... Creeps!, by Tom Neely. Collection of those horror cover remakes you may have seen here and there. Brrrrrrrr.
  
• Ariadne auf Naxos #1-2 by Julia Gfrörer. “New” in the sense of “Why didn’t we have this before?” Puts the Rude in Erudite, and has the best running gag about Doctor Who ever.
  
• Kitchen Conniption by Vanessa Davis. It’s Vanessa’s cookbook and it’s yummy.
  
• Barbarian Comic by Alixopulos. Short and sweet. It’s about barbarians.
  
• Postdoc by Hob. Like the cover says: “drawings of TV doctors dressed for other jobs.”
  
• Lucky House and Eternity by Eliza Frye. Very atmospheric very short stories showcasing Eliza’s striking art and design.
  
• The Ratnest #1-2 by Patrick Keck. Cryptic, visually lush and rather disturbing.
  
• Clutch #19 by Clutch McBastard. More diary madness. 2003 was apparently a pretty good year, 2004 not so much.
  
• Stun Nuts #6 by Chris Cilla. There’s a ghost, a breast, some big noses and lots of food.

• House of Instant Booze (Cilla)
  
• Brilliantly Ham-Fisted (Neely)

Possibly the most insanely entertaining and labor-intensive thing we ever sold here was Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, an 80-page, zillion-panel multidimensional choose-your-own-adventure comic involving time travel, memory transference and hideous death. It uses an intricate system of cut-out page marker tabs, and Jason used to make the whole thing by hand. Well now he’ll have to find some other way to spend his time, because Meanwhile has FINALLY been published in hardcover (and in color!) by Abrams/Amulet Books. Check it out and give it to brave children.

• This Friday, 2/5: Lisa Hanawalt appears at The Secret Headquarters.

Are you in Hamilton, Ontario? If not, why not? You could be hanging out at Mixed Media and finding books, including some of our comics.

Are you in Providence, RI? If so, why not put down that copy of Rhode Island Sluts* and check out the eclectic offerings at Ada Books, the latest retailer to carry comics books from Global Hobo.

(* cultural reference from Dumb and Dumber, which is the source of almost all I know about Rhode Island— sorry)

Our newest retail pail is the spiffy new-ish San Francisco store and gallery Mission: Comics and Art. It’s really an extremely cool store—let’s hope it won’t get so cool that we can’t go there. Leef has declared this Indy Comics Week, so stop by and show him some love.

• My Every Single Thought, Buzz #3, and I Hate Mom’s Cat by Corinne Mucha. Where does she get all this energy?
  
• Chickadee by Briana Miller. Book-art with gray-tone watercolors and a heart.