Alternative Comics has announced that for May 2003, it will release two new comic books from New York cartoonists Nick Bertozzi and Dean Haspiel, and that the publisher will be sub-distributing the Xeric Foundation grant award-winning graphic novel from California cartoonist Derek Kirk Kim.
Rubber Necker #3 By Nick Bertozzi
Ignatz-Awarded and Eisner-Nominated Nick Bertozzi has filled the third issue of his self-anthology tight with good stuff! Scratch your beard over the third chapter of the ground-breaking "Drop Ceiling" which averages 20 panels per page but is always quite readable. Have a laugh with the short "Superfriendlyland", a GRIT parody, or the "Silly Office Switchplates" that one can cut from the comic and affix to their light switches. Then wipe a tear from your eye after reading the tragic "Overpass". Have a quick cocktail, then pore over several innovative tree house designs, a short experimental comic "Reflection", and play the clever, ongoing "why is that the cover" game!
Mature Readers, 32 pages, partial color interiors, full color covers; $3.50US. ISBN: 1-891867-37-7.
Aim To Dazzle By Dean Haspiel
Co-Published by Alternative Comics and Top Shelf Productions, Aim To Dazzle marks the return of cavalier vagabond, Billy Dogma, in the post-disaster adventure chronicles of the last romantic hero. This issue features a special introduction by Publishers Weekly editor Calvin Reid, and brandishes new yarns: "Aim to Dazzle," "Little by Small," "Ice Man," and the 2-color mute tale "Pinata." Including, the rarely seen 4-color "Closet Shut-In," "No Matter What," and anthology favorites "The Big To Do," and "The Y2-401-Special-K Problem." Dean Haspiel is the author of super-psychedelic romances and semi-auto-bio comix who occasionally mangles franchise characters for Marvel & DC Comics.
Mature Readers, 32 pages, partial color interiors, full color covers; $3.50US. ISBN: 1-891867-30-X.
Same Difference and Other Stories graphic novel By Derek Kirk Kim
Xeric Foundation grant award-winner! After gaining phenomenal popularity and critical acclaim online with smallstoriesonline.com, Derek Kirk Kim collects the stories that garnered him all the attention in the past two years with this handsome new collection. Through a series of sensitive--and often hilarious--short stories, Kirk Kim, deftly explores the not-so-average twenty-somethings' quarter-life crisis, romantic neurosis, and perhaps most refreshingly of all, Korean-American life. In September 2002, Kirk's self-effacing wit, ear for dialogue, and meticulous art style earned him the Xeric Grant as well as an Ignatz nomination, two prestigious industry awards. Find out for yourself why Derek Kirk Kim is considered a stand-out among the new generation of cartoonists and a fresh new voice in Asian American literature. "Rocketing out of obscurity in 2001. A powerful storyteller in 2002. No American cartoonist has more promise in 2003 than Derek Kirk Kim." --Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.
Sub-distributed by Alternative Comics. All Ages, 154 pages, $12.00 US. ISBN: 1-891867-48-2.
