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frozengirl by Iku Kawaguchi. 

Parc by Jul Gordon.

Compact Magazine.

The Necrophilic Landscape by Morgan Vogel. 

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9781937541644 • 6 × 8.75” • 140pp

"A macabre, ritual auto-da-fé, scratching and consuming fresh scabs from the festering exhausted spacetime of present sssocial fabrik." —Tom Kaczynski author of Beta Testing The Ongoing Apocalypse

A book disguised as a magazine; a magazine disguised as a book. Lush, ambivalent, sacramental & subtweeting. With poetry, photography, comics, & prose. And 50 pages previewing future books from the publisher. Compact Magazine; a salon in print. A Magazine About Feelings. 

Featuring new work of post-Covid Science Fiction by Nova-award winning author Samuel R Delany, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures author Yvan Alagbé; including work by Morgan Vogel, Stephen Z Hayes, Sarah Cuje, Brian Bamps, Liza Kotlar, Ellen Plant, Ash H.G., Blaise Larmee, and Katherine Dee. 

With book previews by Maggie Umber, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi, Lale Westvind, Ash H.G., Tara Booth, Paul Peng, Clair Gunther, Stephen Z Hayes, Josiah Parker, Jason Overby, and Steve Grove.

9781937541637 • 5.5 × 8.515” • 76pp

"Gorgeous" —Margot Ferrick, Yours, Dognurse

Iku Kawaguchi’s drawings of girls who are refined, fashionable, sleeping. Young women who are collapsing, vamping, strutting. Laughing ruddily, reading, petting, leaning, smoking, & looking in the mirror. In ballpoint pen, pencil, and watercolor.

Iku Kawaguchi lives and works in Tokyo. frozengirl collects drawings made between 2008 and 2023.

"Most of my motifs are women, but I think I draw something different. I'll leave it up to the viewer to decide what it is." - Iku Kawaguchi

“Their charming features had ceased to be indistinct and impersonal. I dealt them like cards into so many heaps to compose (failing their names, of which I was still ignorant): the big one who jumped over the banker, the little one who stood out against the horizon of sea with her plump and rosy cheeks, her green eyes; the one with the straight nose and dark complexion, in such contrast to all the rest, another, with a white face like an egg on which a tiny nose described an arc of a circle like a chicken's beak; yet another, wearing a hooded cape.” —Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. II Within a Budding Grove - Seascape with Frieze of Girls

9781937541590 • 6 × 7.692” • 104pp

“An eccentric, wonderfully trashy story, a subtle and unusual way of translating it into pictures.” —Dr. Brigitte Helbling, Berthold Leibinger Foundation

“Jul is responsible for the funniest and most absurd comic panels I have ever seen. There is nothing like Jul’s dark humor out there. Her scratchy line and wonderful color palette are absolutely perfect for the surreal sceneries and priceless dialogues. If you’re looking for something truly original in contemporary comics, keep an eye out for Jul’s comics!” —Anna Haifisch, The Artist

“Jul Gordon‘s drawing is magnificent. You feel every line and blob and smear of her world in your bones. I love this book.” —Anders Nilsen, Big Questions, Tongues

“Parc is a great touching picture story, by Jul Gordon, excitingly told, wondrously comically drawn, about life as it really is: With the ancestors, the weather, the vermin and love.” —Anke Feuchtenberger, W the Whore Makes Her Tracks

“Reading Jul’s books is a mystical experience. Every detail speaks to me in an unknown language while I can’t stop listening.” —Max Baitinger, Röhner

“While there are scenes that sear themselves into your genetic make-up, like a guy in a wheelchair shooting his guns into an empty swimming pool, there emerges a burning, all-engulfing anger from Gordon's vivid comics language.” —Oliver Ristau, The Comics Journal

Parc is inspired by a German comic opera and drawn from scale architectural models built by the author. Starring Theresa, the quintuplets. The cat, the physical therapist and the subtenant. Sophie, her father, her brother, and the dog. Each lives under different constraints with distinct personalities and in a variety of spaces within the park. We, voyeuristically, zoom into and come to understand each. Violence and despair are portrayed casually, with humor and irreverence, but the contrast between the grave content of the panels and the levity in the way they are drawn creates a friction which underscores Gordon’s social critique. Things are messy, there are consequences. And yet, there is hope, resilience, caring, beauty, and art.

9781937541620 • 7.75 × 9.25" • 44pp

“[A] solo masterpiece...one of the most stunning works of comics art in the last decade.” —Austin English, The Comics Journal

"Finally, we are permitted to peek into the horrid pile left in the bin outside the building of the former Xeric grant office. The building has been closed for a while now, and like one would expect, the state of this original manuscript has been compromised considerably over the years, some might even say 'edited' by the forces of nature." —Noel Freibert, Old Ground

"THE BODY TAKING PRECEDENCE OF THE SOUL...THE MANNER SEEKING TO OUTDO THE MATTER, THE LETTER AIMING AT OUSTING THE SPIRIT." —Henri Bergson

In Morgan Vogel’s The Necrophilic Landscape the world is split between adult men and male children— we’re told they’re identified and separated at birth. Men live in the city and children live in quasi-feudal, agrarian zones on its outskirts. But children may pass themselves off as men by merely standing on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat. And the disguise is employed en masse, systematized, with untold numbers of paired children disguised as adults crossing into the city to become its criminals, terrorists, and illegal immigrants. Satire. An unfinished work which feels epic by sheer density of ideas per page and panel. Nikolai Gogol under the influence of Edogowa Rampo. Previously published under the pseudonym Tracy Auch, this second edition features an afterword with texts by the author and photographs.

9781937541491 • 56pp • 12 × 8" • b&w, 1 color • CMYK offset • hardcover

A CAT LOVES A BOY.

Exquisite, intricate graphite drawings in landscape view. Chock-full of hidden details, little worlds of signification. Beautiful, opulent, emotional. 

REVIEWS FOR COPY KITTY: 

“...intricate, hypnotic…” —Selena Gallery 

“A shimmering fake moon, opulent costume changes, and Depression-era Art Deco set the backdrop for this spellbinding new narrative from Kyung-Me.” —The Editorial Magazine 

REVIEWS FOR CONIUNCTIO: 

“Kyung-Me’s ultra-precise ink drawings, which resemble both Renaissance etchings and finely wrought computer-generated renderings, are windows into starkly glamorous modernist interiors.” —The New Yorker 

“In a series of grayscale drawings, Kyung-Me renders every wood grain and textile fiber with ink, charcoal, or graphite in crisp detail, with no loss from foreground to background. The meticulous clarity is dizzying, even hallucinatory. With no singular focus or discernible narrative, the subjectless interior induces a horror vacui through its elaborate, often competing patterns.” —The Offing 

REVIEWS FOR BAD KOREAN: 

“A charmingly self-deprecating show, Bad Korean is a deeply personal exploration of feeling alienated from both one’s own body and one’s environment. Kyung-Me’s sketches initially appear rough and hurried, with loose outlines and plain washes of color that carelessly overstep their bounds. Her facial expressions are an exception. Consistently illustrated with profound sensitivity, her drawn avatar’s face elucidates a complex conflation of conflicted feelings. She offers a rare feminist window into second-generation intersectionality, achieved at a human scale.” —Hyperallergic

“Kyung-Me’s drawings, rendered in colored pencil and pastel on paper, show flattened visions of everyday life in New York — images of being optimistic and confused and gross and lonely and lost and hungry and in love.” —Huffington Post 

An adult picture book comprised of intricate, surreal graphite illustrations that tell the tale of obsessive love and longing and the maddening, self-inflicted contortions of identity endured to fit perceived expectations and norms.

Copy Kitty explores themes of identity, belonging and love through a cat who painfully and continually reinvents itself in pursuit of adoration and an elusive ideal. Autobiographically driven, the narrative strikes a chord through common experiences conveyed authentically, with sharp perspective and deep reflection on the self-destructive consequences of perceived ideals and sublimation of identity.

The format of the book presents each of the highly detailed illustrations alternating with a blank page. Copy Kitty is based on a series of illustrations Kyung-Me exhibited at galleries in New York, which were met with strong critical acclaim. In 2018, work from Copy Kitty was featured in Artspace, having been selected on the favorites list from the New York NADA preview by prominent art collectors Susan and Michael Hort.

Kyung-Me is an artist and illustrator living in New York. She is represented by Bureau, NY.  She holds an MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York galleries and beyond. She is best known for her series of illustrations and debut graphic novel, Bad Korean, critically acclaimed by Vice, Huffington Post, and Hyperallergic.

9781937541514 • 6 × 8” • 108pp • CMYK offset

"This is not a comics anthology that just compiles various contributions by different artists but rather one that can only exist as one piece, one that was created by three parts of one body with a shared vision. These stories don’t make you see the individual artists behind them — these stories want to tell you that they created themselves and will keep recreating even after you put the book down. A living organism of the most convincing examples that show how masterful and unpretentiously poetic comics can be." —Aisha Franz, author of Shit is Real 

"Lush dancing forms in kaleidoscopic color and style, Mirror Mirror 3 is animated, playful and delicious. A collection of delightfully joyous work vibrating with creative vigor. An ornate dream box of beautifully wrapped candies you've never tried before." —Lale Westvind, author of Grip 

Mirror Mirror 3 is a vibrant maelstrom of mixed media, arriving at a stunning intersection of innocence, joy, and color. 

The third volume of 2dcloud’s flagship anthology is created in partnership with Plum, a Brooklyn-based artist collective and publisher. This volume of the anthology series is divided into three sections, one by each of the Plum artists, with collaborative work connecting the stories. Themes throughout include nature, introspection and interpersonal relationships. Plum’s imagery is vibrant, emotive, and mythic. 

Plum Press is a small press located in Brooklyn, NY. They publish comics, zines and other printed materials and products. They host events and work in a variety of media. Plum is run by Haejin Park, Paige Mehrer, Sophie Page.

9781937541149 • 6.8 × 8.5” • 104pp • flexibound

9781937541552 • 384 pp • 6 × 9" • 2 color, b&w offset • perfect bound • french flaps

9781937541194 • 7 × 10” • 160pp • CMYK offset • smyth-sewn • printed by TWP in S. Korea

9781937541309 • 124 pp • 7.5 × 10.5" • b&w, CMYK offset • smyth-sewn • dust-jacket

"Where did this man come from? [...] lines so delicate they’re like hairs that have dropped onto a scanner from above. Who knew making a series of pictures in navy triangles and circles could be so beautiful?" —It’s Nice That

"We often expect comics to tell us the stories of adventures. Alexis Beauclair does precisely this and nothing else, but his work extends, synthesizes, crystallizes, refines and intensifies this tradition. "Action" is the watchword of his narratives, which follow the path of looking and the stages of perception to reconstitute the movement of an intelligence. Alexis Beauclair's comics tell us the story of the adventure of drawing. And (almost) nothing else." —Laurent Bruel, Editions Matière

"Alexis Beauclair's minimalism makes generous play of the act of reading comics. Recalling the lively abstract animation of Viking Eggeling, Oskar Fischinger, and Al Jarnow, Beauclair's formalism is intellectual but never academic. His precise, linear images reveal themselves to be shaded with humor and humanity in their juxtaposition and arrangement." —Bill Kartalopoulos, Series Editor for the #1 New York Times best selling Best American Comics series

The Sol LeWitt of comics delivers sublime beauty of abstract art as never before in a graphic novel.

Nothing stretches or bends, there is no movement, no animation, no life in static images. But by looking at these pared-down and simple pictures in sequence, you catch glimpses that would indicate otherwise—and that indication is magical. Before your eyes, these abstract simple lines, geometric shapes, and grids come to life. Vanishing Perspective is a comic book in which the reader is light itself.

Includes Kim Jooha interview + Bill Kartalopoulos essay.

Alexis Beauclair lives in France. His acclaimed illustrations and comics have been featured in the New York Times, Pitchfork Review, and Real Life.

shop illustration by Tara Booth

32 pp
7.75 × 9.25"
1 color risograph
saddle-stitched
printed by Perfectly Acceptable in Chicago

9781937541361 • 7 × 10” • 176pp • 2017

"2001 is strange and fascinating in its fragmentary, elusory nature."—Biblioklept

A conceptually tight and dense book of intellectual and romantic comics, drawings, and related materials, jacketed by Japanese and South Korean flags. 2001 begins at the center with the titular comic and expands outward, leaving twin wakes of character sheets, architectural plans detritus, comics characters dialoguing about subjects such as love, sociology, and practice, drawings made with lighters, letters from his mother, short texts on linearity and goal-orientation in 5th grade.

9781937541200 • 6.93 × 9.84” • 192pp • 1, 2, & 4 color offset • smyth-sewn • poster (27.83 X 16.69 inches) 

9781937541408 • 8 × 5.1” • 184pp • 2 color offset • o-wrap

"I think Leif Goldberg made Lost in the Fun Zone using automatic writing—after absorbing all art of the twentieth century and comics from the past forty years. How else do you get Dubuffet, synthetic cubism, Garfield, Italian Futurism, Luis Buñuel, and Gary Panter in a story about two cats traveling a digressive and banal path to nowhere? It's boldly weird. Goldberg has hijacked the comics form, for its benefit and ours." —Nicole Rudick, Managing Editor at The Paris Review

"Alleluia!!! Our favorite Artist has made a Graphic novel unlike any other. Going Commando in Black'n'White Rodeo style, the better to spin his lasso spiderweb of narrative, Goldberg performs the great trick of steering time neatly down two railroad tracks. A metamorphosis per page, at the speed of synapses sprouting digression radicles... This story echoes, spins, and convulses with a thousand sweaty puns- you will laff on the bus, in the bathroom, and at Harvard. Truly unlike no other artist in the galaxy (Borblefluzz is related).... Do you want to understand the world by walking through a pumpkin? Is your favorite drug Funny Animals?... Well then get "Get Lost"!!!! To Find Yourself!! in the Fun Zone!!!" —Matthew Thurber

Lost in the Fun Zone is the long-awaited debut graphic novel from respected underground printmaker, animator, musician, and zinemaker Leif Goldberg. Transposing buddy and road film dynamics into the world of underground art comics, Goldberg adroitly balances absurdism with cultural snark and art history commentary to produce a book worthy of its name.

Leif Goldberg is a visual artist and musician living in Vermont. As a member of the highly influential art-collective Fort Thunder based in Providence, RI in the late 1990's and early 2000's, Goldberg is known for his bold screenprint work as well as experimental animation and contributions to the band Forcefield, who were part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

24 pp
5 × 7"
1 color risograph
saddle-stitched
printed by Perfectly Acceptable in Chicago

"Really liking this."
—Sammy Harkham

"I want to whisper through the feathery light hair of Jakes Terrell's characters. They're beautifully drawn!"
—Anna Haifisch

"Jake Terrell has spent his time well learning to manipulate a fine pen line so that it resembles the amorphousness and confusion of daily life and human interaction. In his work I feel the dizziness of knowing other people."
—HTML Flowers

9781937541231 • 160 pp • 6 3/8 × 8 5/8" • 2,3 color offset • smyth-sewn flexibound • printed by TWP in S. Korea

9781937541170 • 5.1 × 6.5” • 140pp • 1, 2 color, CMYK offset • smyth-sewn •  printed by TWP in S. Korea 

24 pp
4 × 5"
1 color risograph 
saddle stitched
printed by Perfectly Acceptable in Chicago

"Faces laid more bare in their sorrowful eyes, than their naked bodies..."
—Shawn Starr

Fragmentary and fleeting, an avatar stands in an empty space — naked in front of cloud cover. 

Nou is puzzling in a way that is different from experimental writers like Georges Perec. Her puzzles are orchestrated not so much by formal rules, but by the complexities of life today. Much of her past work consists of love letters, screen-caps, stickers, zines, and graffiti — which through her oeuvre — collide with panache. Nou lives in Portland.

shop illustration by Maggie Umber

192 pp
5.5 × 7"
b&w offset
smyth-sewn
poster (7 × 19.5")

"One morning at a gig space in Baltimore I watched Andy Burkholder pick up a tube of leftover frosting and use it to casually draw a simple but legible comic strip onto a piece of cardboard. His uninhibited intelligence and direct style create the conditions for breakthrough work. ITDN is the laboratory from which his later achievements have emerged." — Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor for Best American Comics

"A safari through the wilderness of human behavior." — Anna Haifisch, author of The Artist

ITDN Group published a series of comics pamphlets from 2010—2014. Each issue was anonymously authored and included the possibility of being created by a different person. The 'group' — plural, informal, and rigid — is the only thing cohering the series together. A follow-up to Qviet, this collection documents Burkholder's earlier years, providing insights into his explorations of the themes and concepts that underpin many of his more broadly received works.

shop illustration by Margot Ferrick

9781937541392 • 104 pp • 8.25 × 11.7" • CMYK offset • smyth-sewn

16 pp
7.5 × 10"
1, 2 color risograph
corner stitched
printed by La Mano 21 in Minneapolis

Cover by GG
ed. Sab Meynert 
Production Design: Jake Terrell

Contributors:
GG
Juli Majer
Eli Howey

shop illustration by Powerpaola

16 pp
7.5 × 10"
1, 2 color risograph
corner stitched
printed by Perfectly Acceptable in Chicago

This first collector's issue features Aidan Koch drawing in Central Park, Sab in the Upper West Side, Lala Albert & Leah Wishnia in Lala's Bushwick bedroom studio, and Nou, the cover artist. Ed. Blaise Larmee

shop illustration by Jake Terrell

52 pp
6 × 6"
CMYK offset
perfect bound

16 pp
7.5 × 10"
1, 2 color risograph
corner stitched
printed by Perfectly Acceptable in Chicago

This second issues features interviews with cover artist Margot Ferrick (Chicago), Frank Santoro (Pittsburgh), Austin English (New York), & Dylan Williams. Ed. Blaise Larmee

shop illustration by Margot Ferrick

‎9781937541088 • 240 pp • 6.25 × 8" • 2 color, b&w offset • perfect bound 

Edited and Designed by Marc Bell
Foreword by Samuel Andreyev

 4 × 5” • 24pp • CMYK offset • saddle stitched 

8.5 × 11” • 16pp • CMYK offset • corner stitched

Cover by Maggie Umber. Altcomics goes to Canada to get color offset printed. Maggie Umber, Juliacks, Christopher L. G. Hill, Stephen Hayes, Wiley Guillot, and Tracy Auch answer our questions and give us text unasked for. Kim Jooha and Blaise Larmee interview. Ed. Blaise Larmee

24 pp • 8.5 × 11" • CMYK offset • corner stitched

Interviews with Paul Peng, Ashlee H.G., and Almon @roman_bulge. Altcomics expands to 24 pages. Ed. Blaise Larmee. Cover by Paul Peng.

shop illustration by Maggie Umber

24 pp
8.5 × 11"
CMYK offset
saddle-stitched

In-depth interviews between artists alongside essays and portfolios. Issue 6 features cover artist Kyung-Me, Michel Esselbrügge, Robin Vehrs, Helen Stefanie, Cynthia Alfonso, Óscar Raña, Julia Huete, and Kevin Huizenga. Rocky Bostick and Blaise Larmee interviews. Ed. Blaise Larmee

296 pp
7.1 × 10.8"
CMYK offset
smyth-sewn hardcover
black gilded edges

"Excessive, mysterious, wonderful, Juliacks work takes the graphic novel to a new and more plastic dimension." —Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, Torpor, Summer of Hate

"Juliacks is a comic artist whose work—crude, ornate, subjective and dreamy—is not for those who prefer their narrative crisp and tidy." —The New York Times

"ARCHITECTURE OF AN ATOM is a long, deep breath before a dive. It’s a Piscean tale of survival, harrowing and surreal, a dreamlike escape, a delight. Dive into this pool of misfits and watch how wreckage becomes magic, hunger becomes adventure, and human questions about love, intimacy, and community unravel and manifest in beautiful washes of color. The language matches the vibrancy of the drawings and paintings that describes a cast of characters surviving on the brink of a disaster, in the end forming a magnificent poetic experience." —Sally Wen Mao, author of Mad Honey Symposium

Juliacks is an artist, filmmaker, performer-choreographer, cartoonist, and playwright who splits her time between New Jersey, where she recently received a 2016 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Netherlands. She's been published and performed in various cities across North America and throughout Europe, her most recent project being the trans-media story Architecture of an Atom.

photography by Blaise Larmee

34 pp
5 × 7"
saddle-stitched
CMYK offset cover, 1 color interior

"This has the potential to be a downright fascinating series when all is said and done." —Optical Sloth

"The way [Umber] draws her parents as having blank eyes behind their eyeglasses is almost as perfect as the way she draws herself: a crazy-haired curmudgeon with either a glint of mischief or a permanent scowl on her face." —Rob Clough, critic

Startled Maggie is an auto-bio serial focusing on a mischievous little spit-fire. Drawn in light pencil, this new series is pointed at the ephemeral qualities of memory and what makes early life such a funny and charming place.

Cover colors by Raighne.

shop illustration by Keiler Roberts

32 pp
5.5 × 8.5"
4 color offset
saddle stitched

"Illuminating." —Aaron Turner

"It floored me, so beautiful and intimate and visceral. reading it was like being submerged in an ocean of blood, listening to a heart beating and organs pumping and squelching." —Laurie Piña, cartoonist

9781937541279 • 6.2 × 8.9” • 72pp • CMYK color offset • spot gloss on cover, o-wrap • printed by TWP in S. Korea 

24 pp
5 × 5.75"
1, 2 color risograph 
printed by La Mano 21 in Minneapolis, MN

A brief meditation on representation and loss, thoughtfully composed yet seemingly tossed off.

shop illustration by Casey Carsel

7.5 × 5.5” • 28pp • saddle stitched • CMYK digital • printed by Peak Printing in Saint Paul, MN

"A [2dcloud] sampler platter: brushy adventure and collaged jump and shake." —Edie Fake, author of Gaylord Phoenix

Art/sketch zine, companion to Motherlover.

Brothersister includes contributions from Benjamin Söderström, Saman Bemel-Benrud, Eric Ruby, Peter Hodapp, Tom Neely, Noah Van Sciver, Nic Breutzman, Justin Skarhus, Chris Adams, Vincent Stall, Tom Kaczynski, Maggie Umber, Raighne, Jonatan Söderström, Maxeem Konrardy, Luke Holden, Eric Schuster, Coleman Gilbert, Greer Lawson.

14.5 × 15 × 5" art by Margot Ferrick 100% cotton canvas 22" handles reinforced bottom

24 pp
5 × 7"
saddle-stitched
1-color risograph
printed by La Mano 21 in Minneapolis

8 pp
4 × 5"
saddle-stitched
1-color risograph
printed by La Mano 21 in Minneapolis

A broadly sketched remembrance both confrontational and elusive, Archie’s latest continues their deft ability to push and pull within a single beat.

14.5 × 15 × 5" art by Powerpaola 100% cotton canvas 22" handles reinforced bottom

5.5 × 8.5” • 100pp • CMYK offset • perfect bound • printed by Print Ninja in China

"Truly strange. It's like stills from an unrealized, slightly scary kid's show."

—Alex Schubert, creator of Blobby Boys and Vice contributor

"'Characters' are identified; 'plot' is ascertained; 'actions' are linked, 'consequences' experienced; and emotions – true emotions – felt. [...] There is something satisfyingly jazz-like in Nebel’s effort." —The Comics Journal

A window into a surreal, spiritual world that twists and turns unexpectedly from one emotion to another. Well Come emotes with bright color and pathos.

Erik Nebel is a non-binary Speech-Language Pathologist, who works with students that are non-verbal and students with Autism and students who are Emotionally Disturbed. Part of their therapy with these students involves drawing pictures as a way to communicate, instead of using words. Well Come, originally published by Yeti Press, is in part, a result of these drawings.

9781937541446 • 116 pp • 7 × 10" • CMYK offset • smyth-sewn

"Eli Howey's Fluorescent Mud pulls the reader in with drawings so haunting and hallucinatory that the pages seem to pitch and swell, like the surface of the ocean at night lit up by bioluminescent algae. As I read, I felt that I was becoming a presence in the mind of the protagonist, looking over their shoulder while they navigated eerie moonlit landscapes, and vividly sensing the intensity of their turbulent mental state." —Sophia Foster-Dimino, Sex Fantasy

Entirely hand painted in watercolor and gouache, Fluorescent Mud is a surreal art comic with underlying themes of transition and dissociation.

Flourescent Mud follows the main character through a series of seemingly unrelated and unexplainable experiences, taking into account various states of mind/memories/ thoughts/feelings and sensory experiences that affect a subjective retelling of events.

Eli Howey is an artist and printmaker currently based in Toronto. They use traditional analogue printmaking techniques to create contemporary narrative artbooks and large-scale works on paper. They use a combination of images and poetry to construct narrative artwork that expresses multiple dimensions of each situation. Their work attempts to go beyond what can be seen, to incorporate the emotional and imagined spaces within environments and stories.

72 pp • 5.5 × 7.5" • 1, 2, 4 color offset • perfect bound

9781937541064 • 6 × 6” • 104pp • perfect bound • french flaps • printed by McNaughton & Gunn in MI 

22 pp
3.25 × 4.25"
black & white digital

3 alternate covers
printed by Peak Printing in Saint Paul, MN

"Skarhus is an interesting thinker, and I like the way he juxtaposes simplistic scenes of violence that are the core of most genre comics with a sort of phenomenology of the entire experience of exploring the space, experiencing the fight and watching the fight all at once, both as a "real" event and as a contrived ritual done for putative entertainment." —Rob Clough

"[A] discrete objet d’art. Inside, it offers a dizzying descent into wavy black and white lines, like an old TV scramble, toward an authoritarian environment of some possible future reality." —Justin Giampaoli, Poopsheet Foundation

An Art Brut ghost story. A silent protagonist navigates a vacuous cyberspace. 

shop illustration by Casey Carsel

8 pp
4 × 5"
2 color risograph
saddle-stitched
printed by La Mano in Minneapolis

Rudy the magic cat explores the mystery of the bus in this new mini by Mark Connery.

shop photo by Raighne

9781937541255

2dcloud has never been afraid to publish books that don't neatly fit into categories, and Meynert's book is no exception. I believe it's best described as an illustrated prayer and invocation for healing. The lush illustrations, including delicate pencil drawings, elaborate design work and vibrant use of color, give the eye something powerful to work with when paired against the relatively spare use of text. The prayer is about staying open, staying aware, looking for help and looking for connections. There's a repeating visual motif of flowering amidst an open hand, representing perhaps that it's important to understand how to be open to the things life can offer you, that one's mental state is key to accepting or not accepting what life has to offer, in all of its incarnations. The comic is all about flow, fluidity and water's paradox in being droplets and a wave all at once. That metaphor is used to explain our position relative to others: we are all water, whether we realize it or not, and we can either flow or resist--but the river will always keep moving. —Rob Clough

Meynert's work is both graphic and lush, whether it's a hand-printed zine or full-scale drawing. —CBC Arts

Sab Meynert is a Toronto illustrator whose works look like they could have been created digitally, but really they are meticulously rendered pen/marker drawings. —Juxtapoz

Sprawling Heart is an intimate musical of paper, paint, and ink. Inward rumination's reach outward as exhalation's and a whisper becomes a sumptuous song.

Sab Meynert is an artist & writer based in Toronto, whose work has been recognized as a melodic counterpoint to the independent arts publishing sector. Their work spins poetic imagery & text to weave maps of visceral emotions and the multiformity of life's infinitely unfolding nature. Between independently published artist multiples, national & international gallery shows, grant-funded bodies of work, collaborative initiatives with high profile musicians & artists, and their September world-distributed publishing debut, Sprawling Heart, Meynert is an embodiment of the artist working in dynamic multiplicity.

8 pp
4 × 5"
saddle-stitched
1-color risograph
printed by Perfectly Acceptable in Chicago

Hands, faces, cutaways and traces. The phenomena of the physical world set against a wordless one.

96 pp
6 × 6"
2, 3 color offset

6 × 8.75” • 40pp • 1,2 color risograph • spiral bound

"Wander Maunder looks out the window, and explores the panoramic scope of the comic page." —Will Dinski, Trying Not To Notice

"Primal stoner comics that play with the geometry of grids and visual experience of comics on a 'high' level." —Kevin Huizenga, Ganges

"Skarhus' comics are sharp at first glance, confounding at second and ultimately overflow with information that the reader is richly rewarded for unraveling. A puzzle of thought and emotion surge through these pages." —Austin English, Gulag Casual

Rough hewn cartooning pulls against a tightly formalized page logic as we're led through a memoryscape of dead-end friendships.

The strange, brooding style evokes teenage sketchbook drawings that, when coupled with the fatalistic stoner narrative, conjure feelings of youthful confusion cut with brutal certainty. Friendship is the body: skin, muscle, bones; the body comes together, the body comes apart. Wander Maunder manages to relate despite itself.

Justin Skarhus is a former associate publisher at 2dcloud and cartoonist based in Minneapolis. He has published small editions of minicomics via 2dcloud and appeared in Jason T. Miles' NOME anthology. He has new work forthcoming by way of his new publishing venture, Entropy Editions, later this year.

 5 × 7” • 32pp • saddle-stitched 

40 pp
10.9 × 8"
full color offset
perfect bound

co-authored by Shaun Feltz, colored by Raighne.

The schoolhouse is filling with drowning children. Bizarre and garish colors dominate this surreal high school story. Breutzman's rubbery realism reminds one of characters from Daniel Clowes’ Eightball, while the narrative contains elements of overwhelming dread not unlike a Todd Solondz film, and the vivid colors evoke the work of a Lauren Weinstein comic. Yearbooks was given an honorable mention in the Neil Gaiman edited Best American Comics 2010.

Yearbooks made several 'Best of Lists': The Comics Journal's Top 50 Comics of 2009 at #24, File Under Other's Best of 2009, Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver described it as one of his favorite comics of 2010 on Inkstuds

Chilling... [Yearbooks] raises an interesting issue vis-a-vis the relationship between an artist and their responsibilities as a moral agent in the world. Can art be evil if it's made by predators, or is this entirely in the eye of the beholder? —Rob Clough

The story, from creepy dream sequence to almost apocalyptic ending, perfectly captures the creepiness and angst of high school, and Nicholas' art only adds to the effect. —Size Matters

Breutzman's comic is vivid, unsettling and altogether more believable than you’d perhaps like it to be. —Exquisite Things

Strange, gross, and lovely, Yearbooks is just connected enough to real high school memories to really freak you out...
—Jessica Abel

Nic Breutzman's comics are often beguiling, sometimes disorienting, and always formally inventive. Yearbooks is a quick sucker punch that will leave you feeling uneasy but eager for more.
—Matt Madden

30 pp
11 × 17.5" 
2, 1 color offset 
double truck broadsheet

Levitating disembodied cow heads, crack witches, mutant children, urban myths, half-remembered folklore: from the minds of Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman comes Deep in the Woods, a double feature that pairs two of 2dcloud’s cartoonists in one oversized newsprint.

Robin, the dutiful daughter of a drunk runs away from her home, an evil step-family, deeper into the haunted woods. Who knows what she’ll find? Whiskey's solace? A floating cow head's kiss? Find out in Noah Van Sciver’s The Cow’s Head.

Heartbroken Sammy must convince her grandfather to crawl out of the well he’s holed himself up in. But first, it’s a walk through the woods with googly eyed mutant brothers and a stop at the crack witches hut for a ssssmoke. Take a toke with Nicholas Breutzman’s The Mayfly.

The tales provide a nice one/two, with van Sciver’s art style typically looser, visceral, all dense blacks, while his comic is lighter in tone and humour, providing a complimentary contrast to Bretzman’s fine lined, clean, cartoony illustrations, but inherently darker story. Comics Beat

Van Sciver provides an atmospheric and creepy little adventure in these pages revolving around ideas of self-sacrifice and integrity. Broken Frontier

Salz & Pfeffer glimpses into Émilie Gleason’s taboo-soaked world of the inane and the intellectual, the profane, profound, and parodic.

"A rollicking adventure in surrealism."
— The Comics Beat

”[A] very “free” comic, in the sense that it seems unbeholden to any particular genre — but it is very much about cartoons and the dopey culture of it all. Funny, very nicely drawn and immersive." — Dan Nadel, former Picturebox Publisher and Editor at The Comics Journal

"Émilie Gleason’s comics have a visceral punk aesthetic on top of an absurd sense of humor. You can’t beat that combina-tion. There’s so much going on that you can almost hear it."— Noah Van Sciver, Eisner-nominated author of Fante Bukowski and Saint Cole

Salz & Pfeffer glimpses into Émilie Gleason’s taboo-soaked world of the inane and the intellectual, the profane, profound, and parodic. Abduction, damnation, hell, brain-washing, fart jail, murderous machinations, magical kingdoms are all bandied about as Gleason lets loose across 76 pages of pencil-born sequential art. Salz & Pfeffer will earn a place in your farty heart.

Émilie Gleason was born September 26, 1992 in Mexico. She is an illustrator and cartoonist currently residing in Strasbourg, France.

An odyssey of the everlasting nature of boyhood told via poems, short stories, crude scrawls and xeroxed doodles.

“Small naked creatures populate the page...buzzing [with] kinetic energy to the quick-paced tales...hilarious but [featuring]rough, provocative, naive art...” — Publishers Weekly

“[With] an undeniable cumulative power ... Detrimental Information is at its best when John Holden shares accounts of an expanding sexual consciousness, which the stories capture with unflinching specificity.” — The Comics Journal

 An odyssey of the everlasting nature of boyhood told via poems, short stories, crude scrawls and xeroxed doodles. 13 years worth of American tales are strung together in a fast and loose zig-zag formation, leaving the reader out of breath and full of tearful laughter.

Luke Holden is a visual artist and a musician. Detrimental Information is his second book with his brother John.

100% ringspun cotton
Art by Powerpaola
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2016 design from the Spring Collection. Books and zines (sold separately) featured in this collection: Turning Japanese by MariNaomi, Someone Please Have Sex With Me by Gina Wynbrandt, Virus Tropical by Powerpaola, Trying Not To Notice by Will Dinski, Altcomics Magazine 3. 

shop illustration by Raighne

PRE-ORDER • Ships December 2023 • 9781937541576 • 7.5 × 10” • Hardcover 340pp

Grand Electric Thought Power Mother is a collection of Lale Westvind's critically acclaimed risograph comics, available for major distribution for the first time, with new work. This highly influential body of work is comprised of epic stories with spiritual themes. Poetic and intellectual, the content explores the line between thoughts and reality and perception, the nature of energy and consciousness, collective consciousness and experience, and how will and intent can create collective action. It all plays out in narratives of women warriors literally battling and wrestling through these states and concepts against science fiction, mythological and psychic backdrops.

Muscular women warriors fill the pages with their energy, power, speed, force, gravity, and weight. This powerful collection fills a space for physically and psychologically strong female characters that is rarely occupied in our culture or comics as a whole.

The artwork includes paintings, drawings and illustrated renderings of stills taken from Westvind's video work, primarily in black and white, with cover art and some interior panels in three colors. Comics included in this collection: Now and Here, Other Way, Trial One, Tornar and Riparna; Double Head Tour, Yazar and Arkadas, and Mary.

This is the birthing of an entire cast of truly original characters, the likes of which Marvel and DC have not imagined. These are stories which are queer in their essence. They seek to describe that which does not exist yet. Within these tales are countless new technologies, philosophies, creatures and beings; A treasure trove of new ideas. The author sought to explore the idea that thought has an effect on one's surroundings. To explore the beginning of the cosmos. Thought as a force unto itself. Intention as a force of energy to be controlled.

Grand Electric Thought Power Mother reads like the found spiritual scripture of an alien world.

PRE-ORDER • Ships December 2023 • 9781937541545 • 7 × 9.8” • 104pp

Time is running out on our love.

Sometimes All the Time is a Tara Booth comics magazine. Humor, heartbreak, honesty, and astonishingly uncensored scenarios drawn in vivid color. Drawing from over 900 scans of original art, sketchbooks and diaries, ‘Sometimes’ is an intimate and mesmerizing book that took years to create and to assemble. The book closes with an interview with Tara and her editor Raighne, including a 10 page preview of the next volume, and a poignant short story by Tara’s friend and cartoonist Tommi Parrish.

PRE-ORDER • Ships December 2023 • 9781937541583 • 6 × 9” • 28pp

Our return issue after a 5 year hiatus. Altcomics Magazine is the printed companion to our documentary film—in—progress. This issue features fireside conversations about Morgan Vogel and is edited by Liza Kotlar and Stephen Z Hayes. Front and back cover by Kristina Tzekova.

Altcomics Magazine 7 comes with Altcomics Magazines issues 4-6 while supplies last.

PRE-ORDER • Ships December 2023 • 9781937541651 • 6 × 8.5” • Singer sewn in white thread • 28pp

2 lovers enter the ring. A slugfest. Dancing slowly in water color. Disintegration.

Get 4 books for $55 + S&H. Ships December 2023.

—Grand Electric Thought Power Mother by Lale Westvind
—Sometime All The Time by Tara Booth
—zine by nuie
—Altcomics Magazine 7 ed. Liza Kotlar, Stephen Z Hayes

100% ringspun cotton
Art by Margot Ferrick
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T-Shirt design by Margot Ferrick featuring the books Gulag Casual, Mirror Mirror, ITDN, Sec, and an issue of Altcomics