Please welcome Tym Godek and his unpronounceable book “!”, which is a whole lot of fun and is also one of those formal-experiment artifacts that aren’t done often enough these days.
And some late additions from Francois Vigneault: his latest birdwatching zine Bird Brain #5, and the first two issues of the very fun fantasy anthology Elfworld.
Another new one from Stumptown, slightly delayed but here now: Julia Gfrörer’s truly upsetting adult horror story Too Dark to See. This made me cry.
Stumptown was hopping. There are more things on the way from California, but here’s the Oregon haul:
Some of these are new new new, and some are things from earlier this year that didn’t get added till now for no good reason.
Catching up with more of the SF Bay Area crew...
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.
An unusual update: The ridiculously productive Jesse Reklaw, while working on issue 2 of his diary comic Ten Thousand Things to Do, decided that each issue should be 64 pages long instead of 40. So when he reprinted issue 1, he added 24 new pages (and a new cover, which actually includes the title of the comic now, just to confuse people). The cover price is still $4, and the smaller first edition is now gone.
This means that if you have one of the old ones, and you get issue 2—to be released any day now—you’ll be missing 24 days of Reklaw’s life (and yes, he does have a life after the book tour). It’s possible that Jesse will make the extra stuff available in some kind of ashcan format; you’ll know the details as soon as we do. He’s also been putting the strip on the Internet, if you like computers.