NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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From Seattle based creator Randy Vaillancourt comes issue 3 of his new sci-fi alien girl comic--INTERGALACTIC SHE-DEVILS!

INTERGALACTIC SHE-DEVILS #3

(W/A) Randy Vaillancourt

Intergalactic She Devils is about two alien punks Rinolla and Mialla and the trouble that ensues anyone who crosses them.

And in case you missed them, we also have copies of issue #1 and 2 in stock! Be sure to check out the She-Devil's Facebook page at facebook.com/intergalacticshedevils2015 for the latest updates!

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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EXTRUDER #2

(W/A) Ben Horak, Lara Kaminoff, Handa, Seth Goodkind, Ryan Thies, John Ohannesian, Kalen Knowles, Tatiana Gill, Myra Lara, James the Stanton, Morgan Brown, Joe Garber, Claire Donaldson, Kiriska, Ales Murd & Steve Mihalec, Sam Finnegan, Allen Gladfelter, Noel Franklin, Oscar Baechler

From the demented minds that brought you the Intruder and a whole host of other fantastic Seattle based creators, comes an even more bizarre, adults only picture magazine that is...well, kinda defies description. Limited edition. All Seattle artists. $6! Support underground trash comix!!

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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From highly prolific creator BEN HORAK (Grump Toast) comes not one, not two, but THREE new comics guaranteed to be weird and awesome!!

THE OLD LADY'S SKIN

(W) Anne Bean (A) Ben Horak

A darkly funny retelling of a forgotten fairy tale. A young princess is unfairly exiled from her family's castle. Along with her trusty servant she concocts a scheme that involves a very grisly costume.

BULLHOOK ALLEY AND FIENDS

(W/A) Ben Horak

BULLHOOK ALLEY! Serialized on the back page of 'Intruder Comix Newspaper' from 2014 to 2016, now completely collected into one volume with an all new epilogue! This collection also contains comic shorts and sketchbook pages from the mind of Ben Horak! The fun awaits!

THANKS FOR THE SOUR PERSIMMONS, COUSIN

(W/A) Ben Horak & Pat Barrett

It’s another miserable day on a full-ass bus when an Angel descends bearing the gift of Unity! That’s when things really get ugly. Thanks for the Sour Persimmons, Cousin spins from slice-of-life comedy, through gruesome body horror, and into an examination of the pressures of the lifestyle angelic.

The comic is also the first team-up of CCS alumni Ben Horak & Pat Barrett. Haven’t heard of em? They make Grump Toast and Oak & Linden comics, respectively. Never seen those? Well they’ve also both been in Irene, if that helps. Still not ringing a bell? Awww that’s OK, I haven’t heard of em either, and I’m one of em!

HOMETOWN HEROES - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEATTLE COMIC BOOK SCENE!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

This week's feature--

ROBERT TRITTHARDT
ARTIST/WRITER

Robert Tritthardt makes comics and illustrations using mainly traditional Pen & Ink tools. He has two weekly webcomics, Writhe and Shine and Overcast With A Chance Of DOOM! Both strips are centered around characters in the dark alternative subculture. Robert is based in Seattle, WA and is truly one of the most hardworking cartoonists to live in this town.

Check out a preview of the books we have in stock below and make sure to peruse the local section next time you visit the store!
https://www.patreon.com/tritthardt
http://www.roberttritthardt.com/

OVERCAST WITH A CHANCE OF DOOM! TP

(W/A) Robert Tritthardt

Chance of Doom is about Doomie, a creepy girl followed by the demons of her past and she finds herself living in a haunted house with four other weird roommates in Seattle. When a group of gamers use a Ouija board and accidentally open a trans-dimensional portal, Doomie finds it harder to escape her mysterious past. The ghost that haunts her room may be able to help, but only if she can find a way to communicate with him.

This 56 page book collects the first 158 comic strips of your favorite haunted house IN FULL COLOR!

Features 11 pages of fan art by Aaron Alexovich, Jordan Kotzebue, Carrie Potter, Bill Holbrook, Tedd Walley, Michael Yakutis, Abigail Larson, Courtney Huddleston and James Taylor, Dimi Macheras, cd poe, and Karl Christian Krumpholz.

WRITHE AND SHINE IN "TONIGHT ONLY"

(W/A) Robert Tritthardt

A further look into the lives of the people running the show in the New Orleans Goth scene. The gang promotes a show of Writhe's favorite band as Shine's ex, Demona, attempts to undermine it with her own event. Catch a glimpse of Shine's past, witness bizarre outfit choices, and see how Writhe deals with a stalker right before meeting the girl of his dreams! Special guest appearance by Bella Morte! Bonus stories by Rain Polsky and Karl Christian Krumpholz!

Issue #2 "Tonight Only" is a complete Writhe and Shine story in itself! If you've only read the stuff on the website then you haven't seen any of this! The material would fall before comic strip #175.

HOMETOWN HEROES - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEATTLE COMICBOOK SCENE!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

This week's feature--

MARK FALKEY
ARTIST/WRITER

One of the stranger sequential artists to grace the shelves of Zanadu, Mark’s comics feature sci fi landscapes of the dark and bizarre, populated by people just like me and you! (except with robot arms and robot dogs and stuff) Truly a unique voice in the sea of comic artists that live here in Seattle! Check out his website for more gloriously weird stuffs from Autofac and beyond!

AUTOFAC #2

(W/A) Mark Falkey

Mark Falkey returns with another dose of dark, depressing and bizarre comics that read like some psytrance music video from the 90's they show at 3 AM. Take a step into the shadowy recesses of the human psyche if you dare...

AUTOFAC #4

(W/A) Mark Falkey

Mark Falkey is back with "Take a Hike" another installment of his bizarre sci-fi title and this time it's actually comic size! That's right, Mark is pulling out all the stops to bring you a cardboard cover and a full 24!! pages of black and white strangeness!!

AUTOFAC #5

(W/A) Mark Falkey

Prepare yourself for a journey beyond the stars into a darkened labyrinth of cybernetic nightmares and alien manipulation, courtesy of local artist Mark Falkey!! The one man, sci-fi horror book of the bizarre continues with Autofac #5, "Subpar"

AUTOFAC #6

(W/A) Mark Falkey

'Space Madness' is redefined through the self deprecating lens of Mark Falkey and his cyberpink horrorish title Autofac! In Issue #6 titled "Not a Number," Falkey injects the reader into a rat infested, reptile crawlin world of cybernetic misfits and mercs doing whatever they can just to survive the day. It's heavy action, heavy tech and heavy weirdness in one full size, black and white comic!!

HOMETOWN HEROES - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEATTLE COMICBOOK SCENE!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

This week's feature--

BEN HORAK
ARTIST/WRITER

Ben Horak is a Seattle-based cartoonist and graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. Ben has had art appear in many different publications including The Stranger and Intruder Comics. (which is having its final release party TONIGHT at Fantagraphics in Georgetown!) Ben also publishes his own short-story comic anthology, Grump Toast! 

Check out a preview of the books we have in stock below and make sure to peruse the local section next time you visit the store!
http://grumptoast.com/

 

GRUMP TOAST #1+2 COLL .ED

(W/A) Ben Horak

The first two issues of Ben Horak's comic anthology Grump Toast! That's right, two comics combined into one! Featuring the alcoholic "detective" Asphalt, good-natured lounge singer Pinky Palms, pratical junksters, Monkanonee's dream funeral and loads of extra goodies! FOR MATURE READERS! (40 pages, black & white, 2011)

GRUMP TOAST #3

(W/A) Ben Horak

The highly anticipated third issue of Ben Horak's comic anthology Grump Toast! Featuring Asphalt's epic drunken bender, sad dogs, Boysenberrius the Pie Devil, people turning into trees and Monkanonee's secret fantasy. FOR MATURE READERS ONLY! (40 pages, black & white, 2013)

GRUMP TOAST #4

(W/A) Ben Horak

The long awaited fourth collection of Ben Horak's comic anthology Grump Toast! Featuring the friendship of Business Baby & Infant Insidious, the brotherhood of the Man-Os, the exciting return of Pinky Palms and the bitchin' trials and tribulations of Cheese Hammy Sammy! FOR MATURE READERS ONLY! (44 pages, black & white, 2014)

GRUMP TOAST #5

(W/A) Ben Horak

The heavily anticipated fifth collection of Ben Horak’s comic anthology Grump Toast! This issue features eight brand new stories filled to the brim with hideous aliens, ugly humans, hideous aliens disguised as ugly humans, the joys of customer service, underage drinking, vengeful skeletons, guilt, Abba, steamy sex, pizza, ritualistic human sacrifice and cat discos! It’s hilarious! It’s shocking! It’s Grump Toast! (44 pages, black & white, 2015)

HOMETOWN HEROES - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEATTLE COMIC BOOK SCENE!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

This week's feature--

MARC J PALM
ARTIST/WRITER

Cartoonist going on 20 years. Created mini comics in the vacuum of a small town in Michigan now creates comics on the internet and in Seattle, Washington. Goes by Swellzombie to some and created the Lair of the Psychic Creature comics and is known for creating an homage R. Crumb and Jim Henson in a piece called Muppets Rawk and also parodying Shepard Fairey with a They Live poster. Currently he creates posters for comedy events, paints single cels of animation and backgrounds for cartoons that don't exist, and keeps making comics for mostly self-satisfying reasons.

Check out a preview of the books we have in stock below and make sure to peruse the local section next time you visit the store!
http://marcpalm.tumblr.com/


PUNCH TO KILL #1

(W) Kevin Clarke , Wil Long, Marc Palm (A) Marc Palm

Punch to Kill lives up to it's name, as a captured man fights his way through an assortment of scum and one powerful drugged up beast that forces his ultimate fighting style to be revealed.

24 pg b/w with full color cover comic sized R

SLAUGHTER

(W/A) Marc Palm

HAVE A LITTLE FUN

(W/A) Marc Palm

FOOTBALL FANTASY

(W/A) Marc Palm

HOMETOWN HEROES OF SEATTLE! A SPOTLIGHT ON LOCAL COMIC CREATORS!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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SMILE, YOU LOOK GROSS

(W/A) Cooper Lewis Malin

 I need more coffee. And an apartment I don't pay rent on. friends who bring beer instead of scabies and a really good book. This was put together out of all those frustrations and more. Thanx.

(I couldn't decide who to describe this comic, so I wrote the author's intention from the back of the comic) Check out Cooper's blogspot for more weirdness!!

http://whydidyoudrawthat.blogspot.com/

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NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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James the Stanton, creator of Gnartoons, strikes again with a double shot of mini comics drawn over past year while traveling some of the west coast. James' comics are a bizarre melding of Moebius-esque fantasy, Charles Burns weirdness and dinosaurs. Lots of dinosaurs.

​Check out his website for more oddness!!
http://gnartoons.com/index.html

HOLE SHOW #3

(W/A) James the Stanton

Underground action by weird prehistoric bird beak people await the brave in the third issue of this bizarre Seattle anthology!!

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PIZZA NEARTH

(W/A) James the Stanton

​Pizza. Dinosaurs. Radical dinosaurs, no less. And Melancholic monsters who drink too much coffee. EAT PIZZA!!

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NEW LOCAL COMIX!

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Today has been a heavy day for local/indy comix and like good hip hop it just don't stop! Eroyn Franklin, co-founder of Short Run, Seattle's premiere small press comics festival, just dropped off a whole heap of oddly sized, experimental and downright unique comics for the discerning reader. Eroyn's work really comes from a different place than most creators, pulling from influences far outside the comics realm to create thought provoking, insightful and sometimes depressing but always truthful comics about the ever changing world around us.


DEAR DEAR

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

A man tries to cope with loss by videotaping interviews with people who are connected by a traumatic experience. The mysterious event is slowly revealed through awkward interviews and dreamy noir flashbacks.


Minicomic
Copyright 2011
Black and White
34 pages
8.5”x7″
Metallic cover

SORRY SHEETS

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

Sorry Sheets is a slow-paced examination of frustration.


Minicomic
Copyright 2011
Black and White
22 pages
8.5”x7″

FOR THE RECORD, I KNOW THIS IS A BAD IDEA

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

This minicomic is a collection of off-color jokes. WARNING: This book has adult themes and content. It is in no way intended for children or even most adults


Minicomic
Copyright 2012
Black and white
32 pages
5.5”x5.5”

JUST NOISE

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

Minicomic with hand-cut pages
Copyright 2012
Color
24 pages
4.25”x5.5”

DELUGE

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

There is girl, a hobo, and a lot of vomit. The deluge is a struggle with burdens that appear overwhelming but by comparison to the problems of others they are surmountable, even welcomed.


Minicomic
Copyright 2012
Color
32 pages
3”x5.5”

SUNDER

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

Sunder is a brief monologue about duality.


Minicomic
Copyright 2012
Black and White
8 pages
5.5”x4.25”

DETAINED

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

Detained explores immigrant detention centers in Washington state. Each side of the book is a continuous panorama that follows 2 immigrants, Gabriela Cubillos and Many Uch, as they navigate through Seattle’s former INS building and the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.


26-foot long accordion bound book
Copyright 2011
Color
78 pages
5.5”x8”
This limited edition comes with 2 posters that explore the lives of Many and Gabi after detention

 

VANTAGE

(W/A) Eroyn Franklin

For each scene, the texture of the ground unfurls into a tiny landscape. This foldout book documents the Long Walk, a socially engaged project where Susan Robb leads 50 people on a 4-day, 45 mile walk from Puget Sound to Snoqualmie Falls using the Regional Trails System.


Fold out zine
Copyright 2012
Black and white
2.5″x2.5″