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The collected Shaman by Ben Kahn and Bruno Hidalgo (with a cover by Farel Dalrymple @popgunwar) is new today from Locust Moon Press @locustmooncomics
in case you missed it...the collected SHAMAN is on @comixology!
In Stores this September: The Lost Work of Will Eisner
Our wonderful backer friends on Kickstarter already know that The Lost Work of Will Eisner is finishing up its printing process and is coming our way very soon.
Well, it’s also making its way into comic shops and bookstores this September, for all those who missed the initial campaign. We’re excited and honored to be bringing these brand “new” Eisner comics onto the shelves that his work helped build.
Diamond Order Code: JUL161747
If you want to make sure they’ll have it in stock (for yourself or the greater good!), you can print this and bring it to your local comic shop:
Here’s that same flyer in color if you’d like to share online:
We’ll leave you with a peek at one of the shiny advance copies we’ve been cherishing here ourselves…
YEAH, THAT’S PRETTY COOL
Check out the conclusion of Shaman by Ben Kahn and Bruno Hidaglo, from @locustmooncomics
The award for best use of sound effects in a comic this week goes to Shaman #3 by Ben Kahn and Bruno Hidalgo, new today from Locust Moon Comics @locustmooncomics
All hail @brunohidalgo!
Tuesday Tease: Once Upon a Time Machine vol. 2
Tuesday Tease: Once Upon a Time Machine vol. 2
The book that brought Locust Moon together is coming back with a sequel! Once Upon a Time Machine began as a grassroots, pie-in-the-the-sky idea for an anthology by a bunch of folks trying to break into the industry (helped out by a few of our favorite artists, including Brandon Graham, Jill Thompson, Khoi Pham, & Todd Klein). It was picked up by Dark Horse and published as a big, beautiful,…
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This past Friday night, we had to say goodbye to @locustmooncomics’ beautiful shop.
A few weeks beforehand, Rafer Roberts (@plasticfarm) suggested the idea of making some kind of tribute comic as a surprise gift for the Locust Moon boys, with a riff on Goodnight Moon, and I don’t think he knew just how seriously I’d take that challenge. It was an immediate frenzy of sending emails, writing the book’s poem, calling in half a dozen favors… and this beautiful beast came together.
We’re not ones to say goodbye, so instead, we said “good night” to Josh and Chris’ magical store - where I spent so many days and nights meeting incredible creators, hung out with my favorite people, and was only a drunk stumble away from my front door - with the help of so many generous, fabulous people. We love you boys, so here’s to your next adventure!
Please enjoy Goodnight Locust Moon.
One million thanks to Farel Dalrymple, @jarreauwimberly, @cynwhy, Denis Kitchen, @weshoyot, @msgier, @andreatsurumi, Dean Haspiel, Bob Sikoryak, and everyone else who helped make this happen. ❤🌛 ❤
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My Best of 2015
Single Issues/One-Shots/Graphic Novels
Someone’s best is always someone’s worst, so in that regard, here’s MY favorite comics of 2015. Do check em out!
Shaman
By Ben Kahn and Bruno Hidalgo
Published by Locust Moon Press
Superhero comics done weird. Kinda like Umbrella Academy or Street Angel, but a lot darker and funnier.
Junction True
By Vince Lock and Ray Fawkes
Published by Top Shelf Productions
Nihilistic futurist epic about body modification, love and death. With Vince Locke providing gorgeously dark watercolor painted pages, this is the book for all goths, punks and dark hearted individuals.
Butter & Blood
By Steven Weissman
Published by Retrofit Comics
I might be a little biased since Steven Weissman is one of my all time favorite comics makers, but this collection of his odds and ends is a marvel in so many ways. His art is eclectic and his humour dry and dark, I love this book!
I Hate Fairyland #1
By Skottie Young
Published by Image Comics
Colorful insanity all balled up in a tormented little girl on a killing spree! What more could you ask for from a comic book adventure?! Young’s art is hitting on all cylinders in this issue. The manicness is enrapturing and the sheer weirdness of this concept is everything I could ask for from a fairytale!
Trashed
By Derf
Published by Abrams Comics Art
One of the most entertaining and informative comics I’ve ever read. Done with humor and intelligence beyond compare. Derf’s signature art has also never been better. Pure brilliance on display here!
The Age of Selfishness
By Darryle Cunnigham
Published by Abrams Comics Art
The world right now is a messed up place in so many ways. Darryl Cunningham makes a good point that much of our problems lies in our pursuit of money, stuff and whatever reaffirms our own beliefs. With deep philosophical and economical points, Cunningham lays out a genius case for all the problems that ail us as a society. A truly brilliant and heady read, it’s forever one of my favorite comic books.
Last Mountain #2
By Dakota McFadzean
Published by Birdcage Bottom Books
A story of youth, bullies and rebellion. The main character is a damaged soul with problems at home and with his own mental issues. He’s not a sympathetic character necessarily, but this is still an involving read. Deep stuff, well drawn, definitely one of the best single issues I’ve read this year.
Kaijumax #1
By Zander Cannon
Published by Oni Press
The giant monster genre done in a whole new way! Collected into a massive prison to keep humanity protected, yet the monsters get involved in all kinds of prison drama, reminiscent of our popular human procedural dramas. Quite the interesting concept and features just gorgeous art by Zander Cannon. This first issue just blew me away!
Alex & Ada #13
By Sarah Vaughn and Jonathan Luna
Published by Image Comics
While I adored this entire series, issue 13 was the one that hit me the hardest. While on the surface this story was about a young man falling in love with an A.I. Robot, underneath there was so much subtle depth. This issue brought all that subtlety to the surface and I will admit, I cried a bit. Refugees, racism, prejudism, sexism, it’s tough stuff. This series was so powerful on so many levels, so while #13 was a super sad issue, the series overall did end happily.
BPRD: Hell on Earth #136
By Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Dave Stewart and Laurence Campbell
Published by Dark Horse Comics
So after all these years, one of the Ogdru Jahad has returned to Earth. Clearly things went from bad to apocalypse just like that. With one of the original bad guys roaming Earth, it can’t be much longer till the ultimate climax comes. The darkness and creeping despair that fills this issue is everything this longtime BPRD reader has been both waiting for and dreading. Things are so bleak, but so damn entertaining. I love this book!
Yay for Shaman! The 5-issue collection is in stores and available through our site now: http://locustmoon.storenvy.com/products/14171928-shaman-vol-1
And individual issues are coming out monthly for just $1.99 a piece on comiXology! https://www.comixology.com/Shaman-2/digital-comic/320315
Top Selling comiXology Submit Titles 12/18
The Force is strong this week as the our our neighbors from the north grab the top two spots in this week’s @comixology Submit Top Selling List, with Captain Canuck #6 and The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. If you haven’t had a chance to try the series from the superstar team of Kalman Andrasofsky and Leonard Kirk, nows your chance, as the first story arc concludes. @hopelnicholson successfully funded The Secret Loves of Geek Girls through Kickstarter and recently announced that Dark Horse will be publishing a variant version of the anthology in October 2016.
Locust Moon Press is back again this week with their landmark collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Eisner-winning minds behind Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream. Legendary writers and artists team up to present their interpretations of the timeless tale of Prometheus’ gift of fire featuring works by Grant Morrison, Paul Pope, Dave McKean, Bill Sienkiewicz, Farel Dalrymple, Yuko Shimizu and David Mack.
And finally Natasha Alterici’s break out Viking epic: Heathen returns! The story of a young Viking woman on a mission to end the tyrannical reign of god-king Odin during a time of warfare, slavery, and the subjugation of women is not to be missed and Natasha Alterici is a creator to watch.
“Amazing… Powerful, grounded fantasy with a feminist angle.” — Joshua Hale Fialkov, Eisner, Harvey, and Emmy award nominated writer of Elk’s Run, The Bunker and Tumor
Captain Canuck (2015-) #6 — @captaincanuckinc
The Secret Loves of Geek Girls — @hopelnicholson
Atomic Robo and the Ring of Fire #4 — Tesladyne
Prometheus Eternal — @locustmooncomics
Heathen #4 — Literati Press
Tarot, Witch of the Black Rose #41 — Broadsword Comics
Monster World #1 — @americangothicpress
Spirit Leaves #1 — Chapterhouse Comics
Leaving Megalopolis — @gailsimone & Jim Calafiore
Summons #1 — Think Alike Productions
Top Selling Submit Titles
Now go see Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
Locust Moon Closing Sale
Locust Moon Closing Sale
Hello dears. Do you want incredibly awesome comics for embarrassingly cheap prices? Come to Locust Moon. We’re winding down our final days in the retail business, and we want to get our books into your hands before we mysteriously shutter our doors, Wonka-style. First of all – ALL recent single issue comics are $1. Every stapled comic that’s normally cover price is on sale for a measly buck. And…
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Biggest Sale, Littlest Nemo!
Biggest Sale, Littlest Nemo!
You know that LITTLE NEMO: DREAM ANOTHER DREAM book? The super giant one that was filled with legendary cartoonists and won all those Eisner and Harvey awards? Remember how bad you wanted it, but how it was just a little bit out of your price range? How it seemed to dance, big and beautiful and filled with glorious broadsheet comics, just out of your financial reach? Dream no longer, friends. In…
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EARLY EISNER UNEARTHED: Locust Moon Kickstarting Collection of Comic Innovator’s Beginnings
(not final cover)
“It’s like finding the notebooks of the boy Shakespeare.”
This was Locust Moon Press Publisher Josh O’Neill’s awe-struck reaction upon seeing the newly discovered artwork of Will Eisner — his earliest known comics, drawn when he was just a young man finding his voice.
The importance of Will Eisner in the history of comics cannot be overestimated. The restless innovator, pioneer of the graphic novel, and creator of THE SPIRIT spent the bulk of the 20th Century pushing the comics medium forward. But despite endless scholarship on Eisner and his many achievements, little is known about his earliest work — until now.
His very first known comics, never-before-seen strips from his teenage years, have recently been discovered among a collection of 1930s printing plates. The multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning Locust Moon Press intends to publish these strips in a definitive edition entitled THE LOST WORK OF WILL EISNER, which will highlight the first origins of one of the forefathers of modern cartooning. They launched a Kickstarter today in an effort to fund the production of this historically vital book.
These remarkable and revelatory comics were lost to history until New Jersey artist and antique collector Joe Getsinger re-discovered them, hidden among an enormous lot of 1930s-era printing plates that he purchased on a lark from a friend at a collectors’ poker game.
At first Joe didn’t know what he had — but he became fascinated by two strips, UNCLE OTTO by a mysterious Carl Heck, and HARRY KARRY, credited to another unknown artist named Willis B. Rensie. As Getsinger studied the plates and learned more about the provenance of this massive collection, he found that it was linked to Empire Features, a company that provided printing plates to various newspapers for syndication. Eisner & Iger Studios — the partnership between the very young Jerry Iger and Will Eisner to distribute and publish their many fledgling comic books, strips, and magazines — was one of Empire Features’ many customers.
One day shortly after becoming aware of this connection, Getsinger was looking at a reverse-printed plate and it came to him in a flash: “Rensie” is Eisner backwards. He suddenly knew that what he had here was of extraordinary historical value.
UNCLE OTTO and HARRY KARRY, it turns out, represent the earliest known sequential artwork of Will Eisner — and until now, outside of their titles and a very small smattering of strips salvaged from the few local newspapers that intermittently published them, their contents were almost completely unknown.
Says Locust Moon creative director Chris Stevens, “In these strips you see Eisner’s imagination expanding, almost in real time. He’s experimenting with the possibilities of serialized storytelling and working through his many influences — there are very distinct E.C. Segar and Alex Raymond phases. By the end of the HARRY KARRY run you see him emerge with a close approximation of the style that brought him success and fame with THE SPIRIT in 1940.”
In an effort to raise the funds necessary to produce this project, Locust Moon is turning to crowdfunding. This is their first such campaign since their multiple-award-winning sensation LITTLE NEMO: DREAM ANOTHER DREAM lit Kickstarter up and generated over $150,000.
“Will Eisner is the pioneer of the graphic novel and one of the architects of our modern cartooning language,” says Stevens. “This material gives people a chance to see where he started, and how he became what he become. These are the roots of Will Eisner.”
Locust Moon is seeking $20,000 to fund the publication of a prestige hardcover collecting this unpublished artwork, along with contextual essays and an introduction by historian, publisher, and cartoonist Denis Kitchen. Their Kickstarter campaign is ongoing, and ends on December 10th.
“We want to publish this important document of the genesis of one of the most influential and brilliant cartoonists of all time,” says Locust Moon Editor-in-Chief Andrew Carl. “This book will fill in valuable pieces in Eisner’s biography, and constitute a more complete history of the comics medium.”
“But we can’t do it without you.”
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1576907254/the-lost-work-of-will-eisner
Will Eisner appeared at 2004 San Diego Comic Con. Photograph by Patty Mooney, Crystal Pyramid Productions, San Diego, California.
My DIY stickers were having a dance off at #lmcf2015 this weekend 💃🏻 shoutout to all the cool vendors I met 🎉 #comics #locustmoonfest #stickers
Locust Moon Fest
Noah van Sciver + Josh Bayer (Josh dressed as the Yellow Kid)
Alexander Rothman
Just got back from Halloween weekend in Philadelphia and Locust Moon Fest! Lots of seeing good folks, lots of meeting good folks, the truly unique space that is the Rotunda, and lots and lots of incredible Philadelphia. This year, I had the fantastic honor of talking about “drawing from life” on a panel with Dean Haspiel and Craig Thompson (moderated by Kelly Phillips of Dirty Diamonds, aka Futurama’s M.O.M., as she is on Halloween). A really interesting discussion that I only wish lasted longer, as you find out so much and it’s always a shame they end at the hour. Especially when they’re in the LM shop (with some rather distracting art on the walls and an empress cat).
In other crazy news, Locust Moon and the Philadelphia Museum of Art paired up to host a drink and draw in honor of their other recent collaboration, Prometheus Eternal - a comic celebrating the Prometheus legend and the Rubens’ painting currently on display. My smartass art history comic based on curator Atkins’s essays is on view in the gift shop!
Ron Wimberly, Bill Sienkiewicz, Greg Benton
Spent a great evening meeting the cool folks who work at the museum.
David Mack, Craig Thompson, Christa Cassano, 75% of dapper Josh O’Neill.
Alexander Rothman and me, thanks to Greg Benton
David Mack’s amazing. Just look at that.
Craig Thompson’s drawings.
Once again (like the time I thought Neil Gaiman was a guy cosplaying Neil Gaiman) I’m terrible at recognizing people. Drew this lovely guy inking portraits of everyone and then realized he was Craig Thompson. Who is incredibly thoughtful and nice and whose work’s been a huge inspiration.
Drew a lot of jam comics for folks who were there, including this art history joke about a rich collector hanging a bloody crucifixion painting in his dining room.
Alexander Rothman drew Kelly Phillips in her MOM costume (with concealed jumpsuit!)
The first prompt.
Locust Moon Afterparty with the last fish standing in their tank (it ate everyone else).
Afterparty drawjam with Alexander Rothman, Daryl Seitchik, Greg Benton (phantom hand), and me.
More custom sketches, for Richard + Kathy.
Thank you so much for Josh, Chris, Andrew, Kelly, and all the Locust Moon folks and James, Christopher, and the Philly Museum folks for an excellent weekend!
Locust Moon Recap
Another year, another great Locust Moon Comics Festival. Once again held in Philadelphia’s rotunda, where the paint-chipped walls give way to a massive organ that is likely filled with dust and spiders - a perfect spot for a Halloween show.
I got to Philly early on Friday to help with the set-up before checking in to my weirdest Air B&B to-date: a completely empty apartment except for a bed and a nightstand. No curtains or blinds on the window, no soap in the bathroom, no couch to relax on. Obviously, I wasn’t going to be spending too much time in this place.
I headed on over to the Drink & Draw at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Met some new folks but also saw many of my comic friends. It was crazy standing back and watching Chris Claremont, Craig Thompson, David Mack, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dean Haspiel, Ronald Wimberly, Gregory Benton, and others sit around a table and sketch Kelly Phillips dressed as mom from FUTURAMA but that’s what happens at a Locust Moon show.
After the Drink & Draw, Rafer Roberts and I went to watch the World Series. We drank a bit and made up a comic called President True Love and it’s the greatest comic you’ll never read. Oh well.
The show itself was wonderful - I sold out of my copies of ARTISTS against POLICE BRUTALITY in about three or four hours and then just decided to coast and have fun with the rest of my time. I sat next to Craig Thompson who showed up at around 3PM or so and that was a real treat.
Back in the early-2000s, it was books like Thompson’s BLANKETS that didn’t just get me back into reading comics but made me want to make comics. Once Thompson’s line calmed down I even told him that. He thanked me, and said that he heard of COLONIAL COMICS. In my head I was saying, “Awww…Craig…you’re so sweet. There’s no way you ever heard of this book.” But then he reminded me that we were both currently in Whitman College’s comics gallery show (Colonial Comics has its own alcove at the show). I don’t think I’ve ever been as proud of my work as I was at that moment.
Craig signed a copy of SPACE DUMPLINGS for my niece…
…did a sketch for Matt Dembicki’s son…
…and even honored me with a #sadfight…
To say that he is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met is an understatement.
After the show was the after party, where beer and wine flowed all night and eventually all of the guests got to drawing. It started with a Dean Haspiel vs. Rafer Roberts Darkseid vs. Thanos draw-off and then instantly turned into a battle to see who could draw the best uncircumcised penis.
Oh, Locust Moon. Don’t ever change.
We’ll be posting about President True Love soon. It’s an idea of a comic about the power of ideas.
We jammed last night. (at Locust Moon Comics)
Look out Philadelphia, the Belcher family is here!!!!! Alriiiiiiight
(12/12) Come get your Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream signed today, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 – Halloween! …at the 2015 LOCUST MOON COMICS FESTIVAL 11 am – 6 pm @ The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 …. Also on panel 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: THE FINE ART OF COMICS Bill Sienkiewicz, David Mack, Ronald Wimberly, moderator Chris Stevens. #locustmooncomicsfestival #littlenemo #dreamanotherdream #ronaldwimberly #trickortrap #comics #smashdatlikebutton #instaspamming #12hitcombo #ultracombofinish #nochill #shibusa #rotunda? #ibarelyknowher! (at The Rotunda)
