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"It's that sort of artwork which looks like it was never made by anyone, it simply exists in its own realm." —Paul Pope, Battling Boy

"Airbrushed insanity." —Daniel Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never

Floodgate Companion is comprised of previously unseen artwork recalling the heyday of paperback sci-fi, experimental animation, and the outsider realm of artist-released jazz and psychedelic records. This book brings the viewer into a world uniquely Beatty's own, moving stylistically through ink drawings, digital airbrush paintings, and psychedelic op-art collage framed in asemic type to create a cosmic and immersive artifact.

Robert Beatty emerged from the mid-2000s American noise music underground to become one of the most sought-after figures in contemporary album art, designing upwards of seventy-five record covers in the past ten years. His designs include award-winning album covers and logos for Tame Impala, Oneohtrix Point Never, Neon Indian, Real Estate, and Peaking Lights. In addition to album art Beatty creates installations and illustrations for publications as diverse as Lucky Peach, The Wire Magazine, and The New York Times. His artwork and design has been featured in the art comic anthologies Mould Map and Kramers Ergot. Robert was the first artist featured in Pitchfork.tv's documentary series Pitchfork Unsung, focusing on individuals who've made significant contributions to music but remain outside the spotlight.

While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of après-guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in the late 1960s, fans of his brother Tsuge Yoshiharu’s The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family. 

After creating the first independent graphic novel in Italy, the award-winning illustrator reinvents the genre comic.

The second of three volumes collecting Guido Buzzelli's stories in English for the first time, this volume showcases two science fiction tales that turn the canon upside down, penetrating myth and tearing it apart. HP is a hallucinatory, Lovecraftian locomotive, an acrid parody of Italian westerns; while the alchemical retro-future of Morganna performs an autopsy of modern life's horrors.

These fantastic and grotesque stories demonstrate why Buzzelli was called "the Goya of comics". One of Europe's most praised comics auteurs, Buzzelli Collected Works are the perfect introduction to his masterful skill and subversive art. 

Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called "the Michaelangelo of monsters," "the Goya of comics," and "the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists."

A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns and science fiction to Rennaisance art and futurism, Buzzelli's stories are a delightful, quasi-postmodern mishmash of high and low, showing an intricate hand and stylish narrative skill.

The first of three volumes collecting Guido Buzzelli's stories in English for the first time, includes The Labyrinth and Zil Zelub, two of the earliest Italian avant-garde graphic novels ever published. These fantastic and grotesque stories are the perfect introduction to Buzzelli's work.

Nominated for a 2024 Ignatz award for Best Collected Edition.

Translated by Jamie Richards. Introduction by Domingos Isabelinho.

Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called "the Michaelangelo of monsters," "the Goya of comics," and "the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists."

A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns and science fiction to Rennaisance art and futurism, Buzzelli's stories are a delightful, quasi-postmodern mishmash of high and low, showing an intricate hand and stylish narrative skill.

This final volume includes Guido Buzzelli's full-color science fiction epic Zasafir, A Star For Ganymede, Resurrection, and the previously unpublished Incomplete Zasafir. The volume features his earliest masterpiece, The Revolt of the Wretched. This satirical examination of class war is credited for inventing the independent Italian graphic novel.

Translated by Jamie Richards. Introduction by Valerio Stivè.

Night Hunters is a pulsing cyberpunk classic that tells the tale of two brothers who have to navigate the futuristic dystopian world of Venezuela, 100 years in the future.

How far would you go for your family? Would you enlist in a corrupt police department and slowly sell your body-parts for cyborg replacements so that your aging father can have a roof over his head? The only answer is pick up your gun and put one foot in front of the other.

This sci-fi epic by indie comics all-stars Alexis Ziritt (Space Riders, Tarantula) and Dave Baker (F*** Off Squad, Star Trek Voyager) combines the political sharpness of Paul Verhoven and the bleak sense of humor of Judge Dredd. If you’re on the search for the next great genre must-read this combination of Robocop and Blade Runner is definitely what you want.

Alexis Ziritt is originally from Venezuela, but has lived in Florida for the past decade. His comics Space Riders (Black Mask) and Tarantula (Adhouse) have garnered attention from every corner of the industry. His work has been published in Complex Magazine, Heavy Metal, Dark Horse, Image Comics, and many others.

Dave Baker lives and works in Los Angeles. His books F*** Off Squad (Silver Sprocket), Star Trek Voyager: Seven’s Reckoning (IDW), and Action Hospital (self published) have received widespread critical acclaim. His upcoming publications include Everyone Is Tulip (Dark Horse) and Forest Hills Bootleg Society (Simon and Schuster), with frequent collaborator Nicole Goux.

A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso’s one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres.

Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres--all dreamed up by its sole author, Rich Tommaso. In this volume, you'll meet Venus The Love Goddess and read all about her many adventures in the whirlwind world of romance--as she attempts to play matchmaker to all of those in need. Wherever there's trouble--Texas, Hollywood California, The Planet Mars, or down south to Miami Beach--she is there to lend a helping hand. While in Miami Beach, Venus becomes acquainted with a group of young, sun-lovin' beachcombers--partly made up of the cast from Tommaso's Horror Of Collier County universe-- but also starring some new fiends, including a sexy crocodile girl and a vampire cat. Plus, more short stories about love and death. Don't miss this one!

During his 45th year of life “A singular voice in cinema,” (Movies in Focus) and “One of genre’s most exciting filmmakers” (Indiewire) decided to make a comic book.

After the release of three startling, award-winning movies that have played around the world and been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, S. Craig Zahler wanted to return to his first artistic passion—illustration. With tools that he had developed as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, novelist, and songwriter, he committed himself to writing, drawing, inking, and lettering his graphic novel debut, a full-length work of noir horror entitled, Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus.

Homeless people are disappearing in New Bastion, and occasionally, a dismantled corpse turns up in a dumpster. These crimes are left alone, until the day a comatose woman named Lillian Driscoll is kidnapped from the hospital. Her brothers—a grumpy detective named Leo and a slick mobster named Tommy—seek answers that lead them to darkness, arcane medicine, and pain.

Fans of Bone Tomahawk (recently named best film of the decade by Conan O’Brien) will enjoy Zahler’s return to the supernatural, and the idiosyncratic, tough guy dialogue found in his crime pictures Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (both of which premiered at the Venice Film Festival) is also present in this starkly rendered, black-and-white graphic novel, a stylistic confluence of pre-code horror, vintage comic strip, and modern indie art styles.

A birdwatcher finds something terrible in the woods entering him into a strange and desperate world.

Egbert is a member of the Cocoon County Birding Club. While his fellow birders are obsessed with invasive species, or compulsive internet donating, his goal is to add a rare "Painted Bunting" to his life list. His online therapist says everything happens for a reason. But what do you do when that reason stops benefitting you?

Part murder mystery, and part mystery of the self, I Never Found You is a story about unrequited love, mystical detectives, and late night arts & crafts, in a world made increasingly hostile by dark human influence.

Check your underwear before you attempt to pick up this cast-iron omnibus collecting all 5 issues, 3 broken fists full of cracked bonus material, and a new, exciting way to live your life! Can you feel the rats gnawing on your ankles?

A staggering whirlwind of vigilante chaos, the savagely inspiring New York City Outlaws heralded the ‘80s self-publishing boom. 

In just five issues — here with unseen material — writer Bob Huszar and iconic cartoonist Ken Landgraf (Apocalypse 5000) shredded the rules and drowned them in blood. 

When night becomes darkest there will arise those who fight for the dawn… 

FREEZE SUCKERS! And get ready to throw down with THE NEW YORK CITY OUTLAWS: 

Never before has the pen and ink page captured the violence and terror of the deadly city! THE NEW YORK CITY OUTLAWS fight war mongers and street-crime vigilantes in a never-ending battle against crime! Printed in B&W & RED with Full Color tipped-in covers50+ pages of bonus backup materialIntro essay by Jim RuggKen Landgraf interview with Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun, Kids Vs. Aliens)

THE ABOLITION OF WORK, a well-know essay written by the anarchist Bob Black in 1985, appears now in a comics edition by Bruno Borges. His expressive cartoons reinforce the strength and pertinence of this groundbreaking text.Features a new introduction by Bob Black.

The “Citizen Kane” of ‘80 outsider small press comics, published in its entirety for the first-time ever.

THE COMPLETE JONTAR features nearly 300 pages of the full story, all-new creator interviews and never-before-released alternate issues by entirely different artists!

Male stripper by night and street sanitation worker by even later-night, JONTAR finds his mulleted and naïve existence is about to seriously change after the discovery of a disappearing elf in a trashcan. When a group of blackmailing mob heavies harass his best gym buddy, JONTAR intervenes only to be tragically and fatally stabbed. Before permanent death takes hold, his soul is transported to the "dream dimension" of Master Elf-Keeper, who resurrects JONTAR as his chosen earthly sword-bearing avenger to lead in some of the most delightfully WTF adventures comics has ever seen.

Originally published at the height of the indie black-and-white comic boom of the '80s, the JONTAR series was self-published by creator Bill W. Miller. He enlisted five separate artists over the course of nine issues to realize his wildly warped and singular vision which includes disappearing camels, petrified elves, lizard lords, Christian punk cults, and even a gritty ‘90s-style reboot rebranding the franchise with era-appropriate anti-heroes. 

Foil and UV cover enhancements!

Wasp Video Roadhouse compiles a trove of hard to find zines and self published mini-comics that even the most die hard fans have never seen. Includes: ‘Steam Walkway’ (2010), ‘Micro Pitch’ (2012), ‘Shit Town’ (2012), ‘Lost Canyon’ (2013), ‘Star Power’ (2014), ‘Scab County’ (2015), ‘The Toy Collector’ (2021) and bonus material.These stories range a variety genres outside of Gonzalez’s science fiction ‘comfort zone’, such as romance, sports, political apocalypse, neo-noir, music biography, western. Follow the crooked journey of several ‘lost’ souls as they navigate the borders of rationality within a curdled American gumbo. If you can’t get enough of crudely drawn mutilation fables, open this door. Then you can get back to your jazz albums and drinking.

Vikings, wizards, reanimated skeletons, street gangs, teen arcades, mystic swords and haunted jewels meld perfectly in this DIY saga that captures the exuberance of limitless adolescent daydreams.

Together with his high-school classmate, Tony Lorenz co-created the ambitious 124-page fantasy-adventure SAVAGE WORLD, chronicling the exploits of sailors Slick and Jimi, who after being engulfed by a mysterious fog are transported to a prehistoric dimension. The aesthetic friction of a maritime fable rendered unintentionally in the style of 80s punk flyers propels what was once rejected as woefully amateur into rediscovered outsider art for the new millennium.

Along with several other curated works collected in this expansive volume, THE SAVAGE WORLD OF TONY LORENZ is a celebration of the untrained and unrestrained, with many of these cosmic creations hitting print for the very first time ever!

Enter a world where politics means nothing, a world where wizards and churches reign supreme, a world where men live for the adventure, welcome to—The Savage World

Battlin' Ram is breaking into action and you don't want to miss it!

Night Stalker - A mysterious caped hero swings among the skyscrapers of Seattle. He is not known yet, but in a very short time people will know his eerie name.

A mix between Ghost World, Normal People and Linklater's The Before Trilogy, Heavenly Days is a deeply emotional trans love story about how some love can feel so life-affirming yet seemingly so hard to live through.

Funny, and heartbreaking, Heavenly Days is a book that demands to not be read so much as felt.