Test Tube ponders in simply weird drawings how artificial life is still life. A surrealist comics update on the Frankenstein (and Bride of Frankenstein).
"Test Tube is a work of genius, With the power of 1,000,000 VHS tapes ejected from a dream this erotic masterpiece will fuck up your brain forever." -- Matthew Thurber
We've had this one in the shop for a year... but forgot to list it here. Sorry! Gates of Plasma is the latest and greatest work from outlandish outlaw cartoonist, Carlos Gonzalez. This 320 page tome takes readers on a strange trip indeed. Think: Shaky Kane mixing it up with Michael DeForge and Jesse Jacobs as they adapt a lost early Charles Burns fragment to a conjectural 22nd Century scenario. Or maybe just visit its publisher, Floating World's page on it HERE, where you can take in their take on it and also be treated to some sample pages that will give anyone unsure of what to expect an idea what they'll be in for...
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
Reviews of over 60 new comics, Comics in my Mailbox, more!
Wasp Video Roadhouse is the latest collection of Carlos Gonzalez work published by Floating World Comics, who have this to say about it:
"Welcome to the club. A comic book potpourri collecting over a decade of fever dreams, lost highways, and psycho-sexual noir.
Wasp Video Roadhouse compiles a trove of hard to find zines and self published mini-comics that even the most die hard fans have never seen. Includes: ‘Steam Walkway’ (2010), ‘Micro Pitch’ (2012), ‘Shit Town’ (2012), ‘Lost Canyon’ (2013), ‘Star Power’ (2014), ‘Scab County’ (2015), ‘The Toy Collector’ (2021) and a little bonus material.
These stories range a variety genres outside of Gonzalez’s science fiction ‘comfort zone’, such as romance, sports, political apocalypse, neo-noir, music biography, western. Follow the crooked journey of several ‘lost’ souls as they navigate the borders of rationality within a curdled American gumbo."
And then, Hagai Palevsky has even more to say about it, at TCJ, HERE.
