John Pham has, over the last decade or so, in a series of hand crafted issues of his flagship comics magazine, Epoxy, as well as numerous side-projects, established himself as one the great masters of the risograph.  His meticulous work has gone a long way towards establishing the possibilities inherent to the risograph process:  revealing previously undiscovered degrees of subtlety in color, tone and shading in the forging of his unique and highly personal æsthetic.  This has been miraculously translated into book form by printers in China who have delivered this amazing edition of J & K from Fantagraphics Books, that, in addition to containing 144 pages of comics printed on deluxe heavyweight newsprint, includes a host of inserts: a mini-zine (“Cool Magazine: Brain Blowing Bummers!”), a fold-out mini-poster, trading cards, stickers, and – believe it or not – a 5” vinyl single of Gaseous Nebula performing “Deep Space” backed with “Alarum Solus Exuent”, on Total Bummer Records.  Need we say more?