Here's the official bootleg edition of the excruciatingly rare Fairvale Issue Number One Preview ; originally released in 1998 with a microscopic print run. 

28 pages; black & white with ink wash; mostly comics along with a couple short character monologues.

Anyone so inclined can visit Fairvale.

Very Limited quantity available.

Also available, for less, as part of the set special comprising issues #1 - 4, HERE. (these are also gone.... but may come back)

Orignally published in 2006, this was the final installment of the "Project Trilogy" which provided the (then) up-and-coming generation of cartoonists a great opportunity to work with traditional comics themes. Inititated by Project: Telstar, which dealt with science fiction themes with a focus on robots, and continued by Project: Superior, which had super heroics as its unifying theme, this time around, as the title suggests, the same generation of cartoonists is given a chance to tackle the romance comics genre. As with the first two anthologies, the works assembled here bear little semblance to their generic progentiors in the mainstream comics of yore, a guided tour of which we are given in the introductory essay by Bill Boichel (which is currently available online as a downloadable PDF, HERE ). "True" romance seems mostly a thing of the past in the stories that follow, which here primarily focus on -- at best -- snatching a moment of happiness with a fellow being. Many of the pieces center on unrequited love, heartbreak, romantic disaster, murder, mayhem and confusion. Sometimes it's played for laughs and sometimes for tears. Exceptions include Aaron Renier's "Reflectors and Rutabegas," which comes closest to being a traditional romance, and McGovern & Leandri's Dr. Id story, which employs a 1960s-Dr.-Strange-as-sex-therapist narrative that is certainly traditional in its form, if not in its content. As with all AdHouse Books, the production values are excellent and the quality of the artwork is uniformly high. Stand-outs for us include the contributions of Paul Rivoche, Hope Larson, Roger Petersen and Junko Mizuno, but doubtless every reader of this anthology will find their own favorites. And there's no way we can avoid singling out Robert Goodin's contribution: if there were an award for excellence in the service of perversion, this one would have the comics category all wrapped up.  PLEASE NOTE:  This is the limited edition hardcover edition that we are offering here.  Limited to 500 individually numbered copies, it features front and back covers, as well as endpapers that consist of four apocryphal romance comic book covers featuring Afrodisiac, all by Pittsburgh's own megatalent, Jim Rugg! 

NOW ON SPECIAL – need we say it? – while supplies last!

(LIMIT:  ONE PER CUSTOMER)

PRE-ORDER: Begins shipping on Monday, April 6, 2026

Pittsburgh Film-Makers: Fliers Posters Calendars, 1982 - 1984 is a facsimile box set of the fliers, posters and calendars made by Bill Boichel for Pittsburgh Film-Makers during the years when he ran the exhibitions program there.  The box contains roughly 100 pieces.  All but a very few (2-3) of the posters/fliers are 100% scans of the 8 1/2" x 11" paste-up originals.  Also included are the dozen bi-monthly calendars that Boichel designed (and wrote the texts for), which are 100% scans of the best extant copies of the 11" x 17" offset printed calendars (the paste-up orignals having been lost), and a one-page introduction providing some background on their creation.

This is a limited, hand-signed, hand-numbered edition of 50 copies. 

Bottom Feeder Books is hosting an exhibition of the paste-up originals running from Saturday, April 4 through Sunday, April 26, 2026 and this item will first be available at the opening reception being held from 6pm to 8pm on Saturday, April 4.  

We will begin shipping this item on Monday, April 6.

Also, please note:  due to this item's format – being an unbound collection of individual pieces – it is not eligble for media mail shipping.  It is also heavy, weighing in at five pounds.  Thus, it will incur unusually high postage costs when shipped.  We are offering a discount to partially offset that higher cost.