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Legalization Nation is an interesting graphic novel on the haphazard legalization of cannabis

New York Times-bestseller and Eisner Award-winner Brian Box Brown returns with a collection of his weekly comic strip which focuses on the ins and outs of cannabis legalization. Legalization Nation collects the last 3 years worth of strips and is considered by many in cannabis circles to be the true conscience of the cannabis world.

Story: Brian Box Brown
Art: Brian Box Brown

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Atomic Empire

Small Press Expo 2023: New Approaches to Nonfiction: Pushing the Form

The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!

This panel will focus on creators using innovative approaches to the form in their nonfiction comics. Working on topics ranging from history, journalism, graphic medicine and neuroscience, cartoonists will discuss how nonfiction comics can explore the most exciting possibilities of the form. Moderator Dr. Francesca Lyn will join Dan Nott (Hidden Systems), Whit Taylor (The Greater Good), Box Brown (Tetris, Cannabis), and Briana Loewinsohn (Ephemera) as they discuss their approaches to nonfiction narratives. 

Crowdfunding Corner: Legalization Nation Hardcover Book by Box Brown!

Backer beware: Crowdfunding projects are not guaranteed to be delivered and/or delivered when promised. We always recommend to do your research before backing.

Box Brown has a new Kickstarter, hoping to raise $25,000 for Legalization Nation. He began the series in 2020 after spending a year in the Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Program. He noticed the problems with the market but there was very little coverage of it in mainstream or cannabis media.

With a lack of critical, real world reporting from the grower/patient/consumer perspective, Brown took it upon himself to do that. This wouldn’t be coverage of taxes, profits, and brands, it focused on the corruption and hypocrisy in Pennsylvania’s cannabis legalization programs.

The book collects the first 3 years of reporting on the cannabis landscape. Legalization Nation runs weekly and serves as a guide for how to, and more importantly how to not, legalize.

This is a full color, hardcover collection of the first 156 weekly Legalization Nation comic strips or 3 full years of coverage.

The project runs until Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 4:20 pm EDT.

Exclusive: Snow White, Citizen Kane, and nostalgia are discussed in Box Brown’s The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

Arriving July 11, Box Brown‘s The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood shows how corporate manipulation brought muscular, accessory-stuffed action figures to dizzying heights in the 1980s and beyond

Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda?

We have an exclusive excerpt from the graphic novel you can read below. Order your copy now!

The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

Review: Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin

Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin is one of the best graphic novels of the year not only focusing on the rise of Vladimir Putin but the missteps the West when dealing with him.

Story: Andrew S. Weiss
Art: Brian “Box” Brown

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon
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Review: Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin

Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin is one of the best graphic novels of the year not only focusing on the rise of Vladimir Putin but the missteps the West when dealing with him.

Story: Andrew S. Weiss
Art: Brian “Box” Brown

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon
Kindle


First Second provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Neatoco and Brian “Box” Brown ask, Are You Too High?

Have you smoked to much weed? Is your trip way too trippy? Have you bitten off more edibles than you can chew? Have no fear, Are You Too High? is here! Written by award-winning artist and author, Brian “Box” BrownAre You Too High? is the debut book published by Neatoco. 

Are You Too High? is a colorful and glossy storybook for adults, that puts the lit back in literature. It is in stores now.

So, you’ve ingested too much cannabis. Now What? This delightful guide, Are You Too High?, may help you or your distressed friend stop freaking out.

So the next time someone you know needs to be talked down, be a good bud and help them handle their herb with the dopest book on the subject, Are You Too High?

Are You Too High? is available now!

Silver Sprocket Reveals its Spring 2021 Releases

That Full Moon Feeling by Ashley Robin Franklin

A witch and a werewolf go on three disastrous dates in this magical queer romcom.

Follow along with Suzy & Jada as they navigate online dating awkwardness, hungry monsters, jealous exes, rude skeletons, boring movies, feelings (!!!) & more!

Feb 2021; $14.99; Paperback; 64 full-color pages; 6″ x 8″;  ISBN: 978-1-945509-56-8; Diamond: DEC201668

That Full Moon Feeling by Ashley Robin Franklin

The Antifa Super Soldier Cookbook by Matt Lubchansky

What if everything the right thought about the left was real? Accomplished ANTIFA operative Max Marx is about to get THE big promotion: body augmentation to become a fully-fledged super-soldier in the shadowy organization’s never-ending battle to destroy the police, the American way of life, gender, capitalism, and anything else they decide to deem “fascist.”

March 2021; $14.99; Paperback; 64 full-color pages; 6″ x 9″; ISBN: 978-1-945509-64-3; Diamond: JAN211538

The Antifa Super Soldier Cookbook by Matt Lubchansky

Heart Shaped Tears by Abby Jame

“In the age of the Anthropocene, girls are tired and jaded. And yet, we are the last reminders of glittering purity. Not dumb sexual purity, but light and love, laughing in beds, sneaking out like the most important thing in the entire world is on the other side of your parent’s driveway. We feel deeply, we express when we feel like it, we cry Heart Shaped Tears.”

Comics and illustrations about aliens, elves and boys who don’t text back from the sci-fi sad girl Abby Jame.

April 2021; $24.99; hard-cover; 108 full-color pages; ISBN:  978-1-945509-49-0; Diamond: DEC201667

Heart Shaped Tears by Abby Jame

American Cult edited by Robyn Chapman

From its earliest days, America has been home to spiritual seekers.

In 1694, the religious tolerance of the Pennsylvania Colony enticed a Transylvanian monk and his forty followers to cross the Atlantic. Almost two hundred years later, a charismatic preacher founded a utopian community in Oneida, New York, that practiced socialism and free love. In the 1960s and ’70s, a new generation of seekers gathered in vegetarian restaurants in Los Angeles, Satanic coffee shops in New Orleans, and fortified communes in Philadelphia. And in the twenty-first century, gurus use self-help seminars and get-rich-quick schemes
to evangelize to their flocks.

Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy—looking beyond the scandalous headlines to find the human stories within.

Featuring the talents of cartoonists Steve Teare, Emi Gennis, Ellen Lindner, Rosa Colón, Janet Harvey, Jim Rugg, Andrew Greenstone, Lara Antal, Josh Kramer, Mike Dawson, Ryan Carey, Mike Freiheit, Jesse Lambert, Ben Passmore, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg, Vreni Stollberger, J.T. Yost, Robyn Chapman, Robert Sergel, Lonnie Mann, and Box Brown.

May 2021; $24.99; Paperback; 208 B & W pages; ISBN: 978-1-945509-63-6

Heart Shaped Tears by Abby Jame

Review: Child Star

Meet Owen Eugene, one of the biggest celebrities of the 1980s who never existed. Writer/artist Box Brown takes us through the rise and fall of Eugene in this amalgamation of the best and worst of celebrity at that time.

Story: Box Brown
Art: Box Brown

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Amazon
Kindle
Zeus Comics

:01 First Second provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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First Second Reveals the Second Round of Comics Relief Taking Place June 6

First Second has announced their second round of the :01 Comics Relief Festival. It’s set to take place on June 6th.

Comics Relief: June 2020 taking place on Saturday, June 6th from 12 – 4pm ET (9am – 1pm PT). This free virtual festival will cover some of First Second’s most innovative comics, from Maker Comics to The Adventure Zone.

The virtual event features Jim Ottaviani, Maris Wicks, Alison Wilgus, Falynn Koch, JP Coovert, Sarah Myer, Robyn Chapman, Brian “Box” Brown, Calista Brill, Clint McElroy, Leuyen Pham, and Mark Siegel.

You can register to attend now.

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