Books

Set to Sea

• written and drawn by Drew
• published by Fantagraphics Books, 144 pages, b&w
• hardback – $16.99

Drew’s debut graphic novel. The central character is a big lug and an aspiring poet who runs up tabs at the local bars by day and haunts the docks by night, writing paeans to the seafaring life. When he gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong, he finds the sailor’s life a bit rougher than his romantic nautical fantasies.

The entire story collected into a handsome little hardback. See some preview pages here. Set to Sea can be found at your local comic or book store, or direct from the publisher. Also available from Amazon.

The Secret Science Alliance

• written and drawn by Eleanor, inked by Drew
• published by Bloomsbury Books, 154 pages, full color.
• hardback – $18.99 paperback – $10.99

Eleanor’s first full-length graphic novel for kids! Supersmart Julian Calendar thinks moving to a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image—but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself. The three form a covert club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles. All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an evil scientist’s dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this criminal mastermind?

Filled with beautiful and elaborate layouts, cutaway views, and puzzles. See some preview pages here. Secret Science Alliance can be found at your local comic or book store. Also available from Amazon.

Stinky

• written and drawn by Eleanor
• published by Toon Books, 36 pages, full color
• hardback – $12.95 paperback – $4.99

An early-reader comic for kids! Stinky is a monster who loves pickles and possums but is terrified of people. When a new kid enters his swamp, this adorable little monster comes up with all sorts of crazy plans to scare him away. But Stinky quickly learns to conquer his fear, as he realizes that bats, rats, and toads aren’t the only friends you can find in the swamp.

A 2009 Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor book. Preview pages are available at the Toon Books site. Stinky can be found at your local comic or book store, or can be ordered direct from the publisher. It’s also available from Amazon.

Minicomics

The Beast Mother

• by Eleanor
• 19 pages, 7″ by 8.5″, b&w, 2-color fold-out silkscreen cover. 3 ounces.

An intense and mythic story about the conflicts of motherhood and duty, set in dark, old world forests. Pine trees, ravens, children, breasts, guns.

$5.00 plus shipping.

SOLD OUT
Read it online here.

Blar

• by Drew
• 20 pages, black and white interior, die-cut cover. 1 ounce.

Three stories about a rampaging warrior! Perhaps best described as Conan the Barbarian meets Thimble Theatre. High-minded violence for the discriminating comics consumer. Plenty of pinups, too! (I don’t think there is a boy alive that can resist the appeal of Blar. -Eleanor)

Temporarily sold out.

FLUKE Anthology #6

• Various Artists
• 88 pages, 5.5″ by 8.5″, b&w, 2-color silkscreen cover. 5 ounces.

FLUKE is a minicomics/zine festival that takes place every year, and the FLUKE Anthology is a minicomics anthology attached to it! Drew edited the 2007 volume, and provided the cover. Contains 86 pages of comics about monstrous wooers, upside-down boys, dashed expectations, and hallucinogenic oysters; by over 20 amazing minicomics creators (including 4-page stories by Drew and Eleanor.) Click here for the complete lineup!