This first volume of Froggie World provides 64 pages of funky risogrsph printed autiobio comics that chronicle one young woman's journey through life in early 21st Century NYC employing a variety of artistic media, approaches and styles that, taken together, work to convery the variety of states of mind that can – and do – occupy a single being.
It took us a minute, but we finally got in some copies of the fabulous risograph comics anthology, Cram!
Deets:
52 pages
5 Color Risograph printed
Hand fucking Made
March 2023
Cover by Andrew Alexander with comics by Allee Errico, Cedar Van Tassel, Caroline Cash, A.T. Pratt, Nick Bunch, Floyd Tangeman, Peter Faeke
Here's a great issue of The Comics Journal, co-edited by Austin English ad Kristy Valenti. While the centerpiece of this issue is Gary Groth's 110-page illustrated interview of Gerald Scarfe that jprovides an in-depth overview of his close to 70-year (!) career, there's plenty more on hand here as this issue runs a jam-packed 300 pages.
The highlight of this issue for us here at Copacetic is the conversation between Lale Westvind and Aidan Koch, moderated by Austin English. It's amazing, don't miss it!
Also on hand is RJ Casey's interview with up-and-coming cartoonist, Juliette Collet.
Then there is the achance to explore the work of a couple artists whose work is somewhat hard to come by: an eight-page comics story by Allee Errico, "'You Get Me Closer to God': Explaining Music to Dogs" along a twenty-page excerpt from the sketchbooks of Jess Johnson.
This issue's "Blood and Thunder" is particularly interesting, as it deals with what is perceived as the tenuous state of the market for comics aimed at adult readers which includes a notably insightful response from erstwhile Pittsburgher, Audra Stang.
And there's plenty more.
There is a bountiful preview of the issue up at TCJ.com, HERE. But if you want the hard copy to have and hold, don't wait too long, as TCJ has a low print run these days, and this one is going fast (the bookstore distributor is already sold out and we only have a handful of copies, so don't say we didn't warn you).
