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Tom Kaczynski's Cartoon Dialetics Goes Ongoing in Uncivilized Comics' January 2020 Solicits
Tom Kaczynski of Beta Testing the Apocalypse has a brand new thing for 2020 from Uncivilized Komics. Except it's not new at all. He's turning his DiNKy Award-winning Cartoon Dialectics mini-comics, collecting work that Kaczynski has published in anthologies since 2005, into an ongoing series. And using his own publisher Uncivilized Books, to do so.
With the first issue launching in January. Here's the listing – and everything else Tom will be publishing under this imprint in January 2020, from Gabrielle Bell and Craig Thompson.
CARTOON DIALECTICS #1
NOV191963
(W) Tom Kaczynski (A/CA) Tom Kaczynski
Tom Kaczynski, author of the Eisner-nominated Beta Testing the Apocalypse, brings his trademark, heady, laser-like, cartoon-theoretical focus on contemporary neuroses, obsessions and contradictions. Did you know about the 36th Chamber of Commerce? Get productivity tips from a master of Shaolin kung fu! Is there any possibility of Utopia after an orgy of modernity? What are komicxs? Irreverent, funny, and DINKy Award winning Cartoon Dialectics becomes a regular series.
In Shops: Jan 08, 2020 SRP: $5.00
INAPPROPRIATE HC GN
NOV191962
(W) Gabrielle Bell (A/CA) Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell returns with a brilliant new collection of hilarious short stories. From a revisionist Red Riding Hood, to uncomfortable role reversals, Gabrielle Bell revels in skewering modern mores with razor-sharp humor and wry observations. Culled from The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Medium, including several brand new previously unpublished short comic gems, Inappropriate collects Bell's best short comics form the last couple of years.
In Shops: Jan 22, 2020 SRP: $19.95
GINSENG ROOTS #3
NOV191964
(W) Craig Thompson (A/CA) Craig Thompson
Ginseng Roots unearths the earliest recorded knowledge of ginseng and its healing properties. From the mythic figure that first discovered it: Shennong, the god of farming and medicine, through tales of ginseng hunters in the mountains of ancient China, to the first ever International Wisconsin Ginseng Festival in the author's hometown. A red thread of history and time binds the ginseng buyers from Asia with rural growers in America.
In Shops: Jan 22, 2020 SRP: $5.00