A Few More Chicago Items
Alright, a couple of more items from Chi-town before we close that chapter...
So, I know I had heard of "Arsenic Lullaby" before. Never read it, but had definately heard of it. At SPACE, the "Arsenic Lullaby" table was within view of my table (they had this really big banner that kept trying to fall down. I can empathize, my little banner kept trying to fall off my tablefront...). I never got around to scoring anything though, cause I spent the whole day working my table. Anyway, at Chicago, on one or two occasions, we had someone mention possible parallels between "SDF" and "Arsenic Lullaby". Bro got curious and decided to score a couple of books off of 'em. Here's the rundown.
"Arsenic Lullaby" #16 and "The Thousand Deaths of Baron Von Donut"- AAA Milwaukee Publishing- Douglas Paszkiewicz- www.arseniclullabies.com . Arsenic Lullaby is a series of one to two page gag strips. The book refers to itself as the Cadillac of Dark Humor, and frankly, it's pretty hard to disagree. The writing is clever, the gags are funny and more than a little creepy, and the art is solid, supporting the gag strips effectively. There are a few longer stories, which primarily focus on a giant, top hat wearing donut named Baron Von Donut. Yeah. Good, clever stuff that's worth checking out.
I scored a handful of flyers and business cards this year. The only one I could find this morning though was for a site called www.talesfromuranus.net. I don't have any of their comics, but a quick perusal of the website seems to indicate thaat these folks produce books along the vein of the old EC comics, except 1000 times more hardcore. Blood, gore, sex, and assloads of foul language seem to be the order of the day. I think these guys mighta debated me on the "Craziest Comic at the Con" claim. Their book kinda looks like the big biker guy in the movies who's drunk and drugged up and been in a million knife fights crazy. My book is more of the lost all connection with subjective reality, seeing things that aren't there crazy. Apples and oranges I suppose.
So, I know I had heard of "Arsenic Lullaby" before. Never read it, but had definately heard of it. At SPACE, the "Arsenic Lullaby" table was within view of my table (they had this really big banner that kept trying to fall down. I can empathize, my little banner kept trying to fall off my tablefront...). I never got around to scoring anything though, cause I spent the whole day working my table. Anyway, at Chicago, on one or two occasions, we had someone mention possible parallels between "SDF" and "Arsenic Lullaby". Bro got curious and decided to score a couple of books off of 'em. Here's the rundown.
"Arsenic Lullaby" #16 and "The Thousand Deaths of Baron Von Donut"- AAA Milwaukee Publishing- Douglas Paszkiewicz- www.arseniclullabies.com . Arsenic Lullaby is a series of one to two page gag strips. The book refers to itself as the Cadillac of Dark Humor, and frankly, it's pretty hard to disagree. The writing is clever, the gags are funny and more than a little creepy, and the art is solid, supporting the gag strips effectively. There are a few longer stories, which primarily focus on a giant, top hat wearing donut named Baron Von Donut. Yeah. Good, clever stuff that's worth checking out.
I scored a handful of flyers and business cards this year. The only one I could find this morning though was for a site called www.talesfromuranus.net. I don't have any of their comics, but a quick perusal of the website seems to indicate thaat these folks produce books along the vein of the old EC comics, except 1000 times more hardcore. Blood, gore, sex, and assloads of foul language seem to be the order of the day. I think these guys mighta debated me on the "Craziest Comic at the Con" claim. Their book kinda looks like the big biker guy in the movies who's drunk and drugged up and been in a million knife fights crazy. My book is more of the lost all connection with subjective reality, seeing things that aren't there crazy. Apples and oranges I suppose.
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