It took us a minute, but we finally got in a stock of this handmade, risograph comics anthology – Cram!

Here are this issue's deets:

68 pages
5 Color Risograph printed
Hand fucking Made
July 2023

Cover by Laura Lannes with comics by Angela Fanche, Steve Grove, Audra Stang, Jack Lloyd, Michelle Kwon, Steven Christie, Nicole Rodrigues, Grayson Bear, Sam Sharpe, Ashton Carless, Ethan Means, Brendan Leach, Aidan Fitzgerald

Bernadette edited by Katie Lane and Angela Fanche. Co-edited by Claire Gunther and Juliette Collet.

GIANT oversize format, 72 pages, full color.

Featuring a wild and far-ranging variety of all-new poetic/experimental/art comics by a primarily female coterie of cartoonists. 27 artists in all!

Check out the contributor list:  Jade Mar, Molly Dwyer, Ana Woulfe, Sarah Kirby, Ash Fritzsche, Mei Kanamoto, Sam Seigel, Arta Ajeti, Kailin Hartley, Bri Al-Bahish, Marlene Frontera, Liza Kotlar, Sam Szabo, Lala Albert, Liv Forcey-Rodriguez, Mary Moore-Dalton, Vera Bekema, Gabrielle Bell, Clair Gunther, Hannah Lee, Lydia Mamalis, Charlotte Pelissier + Juliette Collet (jam comic), Sarah Lammer, Lily Maslanka, Oli Lee, Karyn Nakamura.

DId we mention this is a GIANT-SIZE comic book?

We finally got in a small stock of the 2022 edition of this collection of autobiographical comics made by Angela Fanche between 2018 and 2020.

It is a fairly unique edition that is printed and bound in a manner that traces itself back to the Japanese tradition known as fukuro-toji. whereby the comics are printed on only one side of each piece of paper, which is then folded over before binding.  This is a nice feature as it prevents image bleed through.

5.5" x 6.5", 112 pages
silkscreen cover, black & white risograph interiors

And, it got a lot of love from fellow NYC-area creators upon its release:

"Angela's comics are so mysterious and dramatic and dark and deep, and there isn't the slightest hint of inauthenticity in any of them ever, which is why I love them." – Gabrielle Bell

"It is our good fortune to be reading now, at the beginning of her career; we can look forward to many years of her life being shared with us. Her work is pure energy.  She has that thing all artists want but few have." – Laura Lannes

"Angela Fanche is one of my favorite cartoonists.  Her work has wedged its way deep into my consiouslness and I often find myslf asking what she would do when I'm staring at my own page.  How would she face it?  What's the tone? How would she render? I'm not proud of this but I'm not ashamed either; you have to bow before a star when in the presence of its rare light." – Josh Bayer

"While Angela Fanche's diary comics record her life (like any other diary would), it's how she draws events that give these entries an incredible power.  The truth of a night our, a conversation with a roommate, the first day of a new job: the underlying and pulsating true feeling that you can only pick up on if you were truly alive and there – Angela's comics bring you that through shadow and gesticulating torsos.  But, the figures she draws aren't in allegiance with the factual past.  This book is concerned with something else: the poetic reality of a day that can never be repeated, except in panels drawn by Fanche." – Austin English

Here's an anthology to boost your start to 2025!  Alive Outside takes the baton from Kramers Ergot, Mould Map and Freak Buck and heads out into the unknown armed only with a  free-for-all editorial approach and an anything-goes æsthetic.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Due to encountering a bit of bad luck en route, most of our copies were damaged.  We are currently awaiting replacements.  Thus, this listing is, effectively, a pre-order offer and orders will not ship until late-January.  As an apology for this delay – or, to look at it another way, to reward customers for their patience – we are offering a special discount from now until the time we actually receive the replacements, at which time the price will revert to retail.

Also note:  Alive Outside has been produced in an edition of 900 copies.

"ALIVE OUTSIDE: An anthology to obliterate the impending monoculture! A convergence of new voices joining verifiable legends, all tearing at the walls of expectation. Cultural innovation as an impulse. Algorithmically-born tastemaking be damned! This is elemental vitality pressed into a wood pulp manifesto for the messy comedy of creation ~"

ALIVE OUTSIDE collects previously unpublished work from an international cast of artists, including:

Aapo Rapi, Aaron Rossner, Andy Cahill, Angela Fanche, Becchi Ayumi, Bridget Trout, Christian Schumann, Clayton Schiff, Dongery, Doug Allen, Dylan Jones, Eden Veaudry, J Bradley Johnson, Jordan Rae Herron, Joe Grillo, Joey Haley, Julie Doucet, Julien Ceccaldi, Kari Cholnoky, Keith Jones, Leomi Sadler, Lilli Carre, Lukas Weidinger, Marc Bell, Mark Connery, Matt Lock, Poncili Creation, Roman Muradov, Ron Rege Jr., Shoboshobo, Steven M. Johnson, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Theo Ellsworth, Trenton Doyle Hancock

Edited by Cullen Beckhorn and Marc Bell.

248 pages, multiple inset booklets, mixed-process 6-color offset, and extraneous Risograph materials.