Bubbles #15 is 52 pages long
Four Interviews:
- Tommi Parrish
- Keiler Roberts
- Abraham Díaz
- Carlos Gonzalez
Four Articles:
- Peep of the Devil by Dash Shaw
- How Much Junji Ito is Published in English?
- Haruku: The Lost Hulk Manga by Shah
- The Grand Old Man of Television: Seth's George Sprott in Print and on the Airwaves by Jeff Alford
Three Original Comics by:
- Coco Paluck
- Gina Wynbrandt
- Brother Malcolm
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Here's the fifth issue of Mexican cartoonist, Abraham Díaz's comics anthology, Tetanos. This time around it's co-published by Neoglyphic Media of Bellingham, WA, giving it a bigger footprint en El Norte. Running 56, 7" x 8 1/2" newsprint pages, this issue is filled with boldly drawn comics, printed in both black and white and color – with the extant colors lying almost entirely along the yellow - red end of the spectrum (see cover). Contributors include: Pakito Bolino, Zven Balslev, Roberta Scomparsa, Park Junwoo, Johannes Stahl, Virgil Finlay, Elisa Malo, Dewey Guyen, Leo Quilevreaux, Kusozu, Olaf Ladousse, Abraham Diaz, Pepa Prieto Puy and Marti.
Most of the comics herein are wordless, and one is in English, so language is little to no barrier to entry, with the exception of the brief interview with comics maker, Marti (Cabbie), which is printed en Español. Y los lectores españoles pueden alegrarse de poder leer por fin “El hombre detrás de la pluma: Finlay”, de Ken Feduniewicz, en la traducción de Mafer Lartigue de este artículo que se publicó originalmente en Mediascene allá por 1979.
Yes, as you suspected, all the contributions in this star-studded 56th issue of Š! are rendered in black and white. Lots of great work here, starting off with cover artist, Lina Ehrentraut's excellent 12-pager, "Fixed."
Cover: Lina Ehrentraut (Germany) Contributors: Abraham Diaz (Mexico), Agate Lielpetere (Latvia), Ana Margarida Matos (Portugal), Andy Leuenberger (Switzerland), Anna Malicka (Latvia), Apolo Cacho (Mexico), Bhanu Pratap(India), Bohdana Zaiats (Ukraine) Catalina Bu (Chile), Hanele Zane Putnina (Latvia), Hironori Kikuchi (Japan), Jon Chandler (UK), Konig Lu. Q. (Switzerland), Leo Quievreux (France), Lina Ehrentraut (Germany), Lote Vilma Vitina(Latvia), Lukas Weidinger (Austria), Matti Hagelberg (Finland), Nicolas Mahler (Austria), Raids Kalnins (Latvia), Sujin Kim (South Korea), Woshibai (China).
PLUS: All copies currently in stock include a hand-numbered, micro kuš! #1 'Colors' by Lukas Weidinger that is one of only 300 copies. BONUS!
Format: A6, 164 pages, printed with Pantone Deep Black, perfect bound, Munken paper.
