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I Love You collects seven stories and comic strips from 2017, including a look at Gary Larson's most hated Far Side cartoon, what happens when a sexual harrasser dies, the spotting of a fascinating tattoo, and the many scenes that play out simultaneously on a subway platform while everyone waits for the next train.

How To Be Alive is a collection of Tara Booth's most recent gouache paintings. Straying from the narrative form of her first two publications, How To Be Alive is a series of densely patterned, colorful, one and two page vignettes that still build a story of Tara's life.

Stories of science fiction and mental exploration from Box Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. Insightful character pieces with a range of topics. Each different story is highlighted with a variety of spot colors throughout. Stories include lizard aliens, New Physics as a new thought form, the adventures of electromages, a quest for the perfect waffle in a wasteland, lost Star Warrior robots, a cult built around social media, and the importance of pizza.

Eisner Award-winner James Kochalka presents a forest full of cute but strange fungus creatures that live beneath our feet. This book contains 11 chapters of little fungal creatures ruminating on a variety of topics, including such bizarre mysteries as "comics" and "philosophy," "cyberspace," and "redemption." A surreal and funny outside look at the elements of our own reality.

"A collection of short stories by Leela Corman [on such topics as] devastating personal loss, teaching bellydancing classes, her family in World War II Poland, reports from an American bellydancer about life in post revolution Egypt, and more"--

A journey into a sewage processing plant built on top of the ruins of a failing civilization. The custodian of this horrid place encounters all types of things that should not be.

When MariNaomi first meets Mirabai in grade school, Mirabai seems to be more of a bully than a friend. But over the course of time, their relationship shifts from tense to friendly, to drifting apart, to reconnecting and finding something much deeper. I Thought YOU Hated ME is a comics memoir about female friendship, a story that doesn't involve stale tropes like acrimonious competition or fighting over boys. It explores the complexity and depth of this particular friendship through snapshot-vignettes of relevant moments over thirty years, painting a portrait of something unique but relatable, common but extraordinary.

"In Babybel Wax Bodysuit, cartoonist Eric Kostiuk Williams presents a collection of short stories delving into self-worth, Internet culture, and the fascinating grotesqueries offered up by our science-fiction present, all rendered in what curator Luis Jacob ("Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto") has referred to as a "unique visual style, narrated in a fabulous spirit of liquid intelligence." In this issue: our author, as a closeted teen, navigates comic book message boards and befriends a Pentecostal Christian! Keith Haring fights off gentrification in the 1980's East Village! A familiar pop star breaks free of her Las Vegas promoters, one hundred years in the future! And more..."--publisher's description, Retrofit vending site viewed April 18, 2019.

Fashion Forecasts explores the possibilities of a not-so-distant future where fashion can be intergenerational, Asian American, divine feminine, environmentally conscious, community building, ancestor worshipping, and possibly bring you closer to enlightenment. Originally printed as a limited edition zine for an art installation of the same name at CrossLines, a culture lab curated by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center in the historical Smithsonian Arts & Industries building in 2016, Fashion Forecasts also includes photographs from the exhibition, new fashion forecast drawings, fashion advice, and a comic essay on fashion as mindful meditation.

In her first full-length graphic memoir, Summer Pierre takes us on a journey through the soundtracks that shaped her. Through mix tapes, boyfriends, late nights in Boston folk clubs, and ill-fated cross-country road trips, Pierre weaves a moving meditation on music, memory, and identity.

A collection of some of the best stories by Baron Yoshimoto, one of the seminal Japanese manga artists who helped develop the graphic novel form in the 1960s and 1970s by targeting an older audience with scintillating and exquisitely drawn stories. The stories included are "Eriko's Happiness", "High School Brawler Ditty", "Dirt Bag", "One Stripper's Gambling Life", "Homesick", "The Girl and the Black G.I.".