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Review: The Fifth Quarter

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Lorin Block loves playing on the fourth-grade basketball team. She plays during the fifth quarter before the real game starts. But, Lori wants to pursue her passion for the sport which forces her to balance her hobby, family, and friends.

Story: Mike Dawson
Art: Mike Dawson

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 (paperback)
Amazon (hardcover)
Kindle
Bookshop

First Second provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Review: American Cult

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Learn the intriguing history of cults through American history. The graphic novel dives into the interesting history of 18 different groups and their history.

Contributors: Robyn Chapman, Steve Teare, Emi Gennis, Ellen Lindner, Rosa Colon Guerra, Janet Harvey, Jim Rugg, Andrew Greenstone, Lara Antal, Josh Kramer, Mike Dawson, Ryan Carey, Mike Freiheit, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg, Ben Passmore, Jesse Lambert, Vreni Stollberger, J.T. Yost, Robyn Chapman, Robert Sergel, Lonnie Mann, 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.

Amazon
Bookshop

Silver Sprocket provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Review: The Fifth Quarter

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Lorin Block loves playing on the fourth-grade basketball team. She plays during the fifth quarter before the real game starts. But, Lori wants to pursue her passion for the sport which forces her to balance her hobby, family, and friends.

Story: Mike Dawson
Art: Mike Dawson

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 (paperback)
Amazon (hardcover)
Kindle
Bookshop

First Second provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from this site. Making purchases through these links helps support the site

Silver Sprocket Reveals its Spring 2021 Releases

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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

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Daredevil #1

It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that and wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Pride – First Lesbian Detective Classic Is Becoming a Graphic Novel! – This sounds interesting.

ICv2 – Phil Boyle Argued ‘Something Has to Change’ in the Direct Market — Will It? – What do you all think?

Newsarama – Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb Lead Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy Cast – This should be a really interesting series.

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: The Racial Contract in America by Mike Dawson – Free comics!

Reviews

The Beat – Bloom
Talking Comics – Daredevil #1
CBR – Female Furies #1

Review: Rules For Dating My Daughter: The Modern Father’s Guide to Good Parenting

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Parenting is difficult, and I can say it is far more difficult than adulting. Your own parents never really can prepare you for what this life brings when you bring another human into this world. There is nothing in TV/Movies/Books, that will give you an idea how hard it will be, even though I think maybe more like Uncle Phil form Fresh Prince of Bel Air than James from Good Times. You are usually brought up with good examples everywhere: your parents, your relatives, your friends, and your friends’ parents.

The constant worry and fear for this little person’s future is your “main mission “for the rest of your life. There is nothing that will ever be as important as raising that child/children and the kicker, you become better for it. Rarely does the “perfect parent” really exist, as we all make mistakes in raising our kids. This struggle is hilariously told in Mike Dawson’s Rules for Dating My Daughter: The Modern Father’s Guide to Good Parenting.

Within the first few pages of the book, he gets into the myth of the” feminist father,” the one whose life believes in upholding your daughter before all, but the truth is far more difficult and Dawson gets it better than most. He gets into the daily struggles of going to organized activities for your kids and how “trying to work around these events can be exhausting. He even delves into the myth of the “underdog,” which gives probably the best explanation between perception and reality of this ideal, as he brilliantly illustrates it is the story they are in love with not the underdog.  He even gets into temper tantrums, which seems lie a rite of passage for all parents.

Overall, a beautiful and brilliant tome to what it is to be a father in the modern world. The stories by Dawson are true to life and the reader feels every beat, even if you are not a parent. The at by Dawson is striking and luminous, that captures feelings in every stroke. Altogether, an excellent book that every parent will relate to and every expectant parent will want to read.

Story: Mike Dawson Art: Mike Dawson
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Buy

Around the Tubes

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It was new comic book day! What’d everyone get? What’d you like? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that. Here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Around the Tubes

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: Dispatch From a Sanctuary City by Mike Dawson – Free comics!

Smash Pages – Eleanor Davis, Christina Tran win Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prize – Congrats!

CBR – Greg Rucka Leaving Wonder Woman With Issue #25 – Boooo!

CBR – Artist Liam Sharp Leaving Wonder Woman, But Not DC Comics – Good he’s sticking around.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Newsarama – Black Panther and the Crew #1

Newsarama – Gotham Academy: Second Semester #8

Newsarama – X-Men: Blue #1

Small Press Expo announces debut works from Takashi Murakami, Matt Thurber, Mike Dawson, and others at SPX 2011

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Official Press Release

Small Press Expo announces debut works from Takashi Murakami, Matt Thurber, Mike Dawson, and others at SPX 2011

Bethesda, Maryland; August 16, 2011 – The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, announces new graphic novels and comics being debuted at the festival.. For summaries, cover images, and details of all the debuting work, please visit http://www.spxpo.com/debuts

SPX has always been a showcase for new talent and a great place to debut new works. This year’s debuts — 38 at the time of this release! — represent a diverse range of cartooning styles, narrative approaches and topics, audiences, and cartoonists.

Takashi Murakami’s Stargazing Dog, the latest bestseller by the internationally renowned designer, will be available in an English-language version from NBM Publishing. The Japanese version has sold over a half a million copies and is slated to become a feature film.

Mike Dawson debuts the graphic novel compilation of last year’s Ignatz-award winner for Outstanding Online Comic, Troop 142.

Matt Thurber introduces 1-800-Mice, an imaginative and ambitious narrative set in the imaginary city of Volcano Park, where flying mouse couriers have replaced Federal Express.

Jennifer Hayden releases the print compilation of her popular and acclaimed autobiographic online comic Underwire. The comics previously appeared on ACT-I-VATE.com..

The festival features additional debuts from: 1RODHWY, Troy-Jeffrey Allen and Jay Payne, Americans UK, Pat Barrett, Jonathan Baylis, Carolyn Belefski, Jeffrey Brown, Marjee Chmiel and Sandra Lanz, Ernie Colon, the Draw Sucka! artists, Mario A. Gonzales, Seamus Heffernan, Jeph Jacques, James Jarvis, Jim8ball, Josh Kramer, Molly Lawless, Eric Leland, Joel Lolar, Renee Lott, Kyle Magnan, Jeremy Massie, Tom McHenry, Shawn Padraic Murphy, Jamie Noguchi, Melody Often, Katie Omberg, Desiree Pittman, Peter Quach, Ashley Quigg, Ethan Rilly, Justin Rivers and Courtney Zell, Jon Reed, Matthew D. Smith, The Sequential Artist Workshop, Andrea Tsurumi, Sara Turner, Joey Weiser, Jeremy Whitley and Jason Strutz, K. Sekelsky, Robert Ullman, Yuichi Yokoyama, and Chris Yura.

Interviews and review copies may be available. Please contact the SPX press office at the number above.

About SPX

SPX is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators, as well as a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year’s guests.

As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org.

The hours for SPX 2011 are 11am–7pm Saturday, September 10, and 12–6pm Sunday, September 11. Admission is $10 for a single day or $15 for the weekend.