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Benjamin Marra
Self-published
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Eric Wiley
Self-publishedAnthony didn't make this, but he gave it to me anyway. Its a zine of surreal ink drawings that have been xeroxed onto green-and-goldenrod-colored paper and bound with a plastic bulldog clip. It's not bad at all, except for the presentation. I wouldn't consider publishing most of what's in this zine, but I'm not Eric Wiley, who did. This zine is Collected Drawings: Eric Wiley, 2011–2013. I am assuming the pretentious title is a joke about the totally careless presentation, but if it's not then that is very embarassing.


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Jason Little
Self-PublishedThis is a comic called BORB by Jason Little. It's a real depressing comic about a wordless homeless guy who is offered lots of free medical care and housing but in the end it doesn't do any good. The comic ends with him burning down his halfway house with a space heater. I'm not sure if this is a liberal viewpoint about how we need better social programs for the insane, or if it's saying that we shouldn't try to help the homeless at all. It's not great or terrible.Get it here.

Ben Katchor
PantheonThis is Ben Katchor's fancy new book from Pantheon. I am surprised that Ben Katchor keeps getting books of his work published because I have never heard anyone say that they liked his work. I only remember two times that anyone has even mentioned him to me and the second was when I was handed this book.I find Ben Katchor's work aggressively ugly and unconsidered. It's totally acceptable to work really fast or do messy drawings if what you're making is beautiful, but I don't know how many people think Katchor's drawings are beautiful. I guess people who like his work dig his use of space and perspective. It's not bad but I hate his lines. For me, the lines in a drawing are like the basic texture of the sounds in music. If something sounds bad to you then it's often hard for the whole to be more than the sum of it's parts.Buy it here.
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Jesse Reklaw
Paper RocketIf this comic looks like it was drawn by a crazy person that's because it was. Jesse Reklwaw had a crazy period and this full-color zine presents his sketchbook pages from that time. Huge splotches of color are layered on top of one another with little faces peaking out here and there. There's lots of obsessive cross hatching, misery, and darkness.Get it here.

Josh Bayer
Self PublishedThis is minicomic with an ugly hand-painted cover in which Little Orphan Annie has an interaction with a man in bed where they discuss politics and then she cuts his throat out.Get it here.


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