The Li’L Depressed Boy: Supposed To Be There Too #2
Story By: S. Steven Struble
Art By: Sina Grace
Cover By: Sina Grace
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: ICSEP140730
Published: November 5, 2014
As his friend’s life opens up into new opportunities, LDB must stand up for himself at his own job.
The Li’l Depressed Boy #16
Story by: S Steven Struble
Art By: Sina Grace
Cover By: Chris Giarrusso
Price: $2.99
“I’M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL NAMED SPIKE”
Things get serious.
Featuring a cover by the always-astounding G-MAN wunderkind, CHRIS GIARRUSSO.
The Li’l Depressed Boy #15
Story by: S Steven Struble Art By: Sina Grace Cover By: Anis Mojgani
“IT’S NOT A LIE, IT’S A SECRET”
Things are moving fast with the Li’l Depressed Boy and his new girl, but can they survive keeping their relationship hidden? Featuring a cover by amazing poet and The Feather Room author, ANIS MOJGANI.
The Li’l Depressed Boy #14
Story by: S Steven Struble Art By: Sina Grace Cover By: Chynna Clugston-Flores
“WOKE UP CLIPPED”
With everything going well in the Li’l Depressed Boy’s life, the world finds a way to rain on his parade. Featuring a cover by the super ginchy BLUE MONDAY creator, CHYNNA CLUGSTON-FLORES.
The Li’l Depressed Boy #13
Story by: S Steven Struble Art By: Sina Grace Cover By: Cory Walker
Price: $3.99
“SCIENCE OF YOU”
The Li’l Depressed Boy’s world is growing and the past is starting its long journey in the rearview. What does the future hold for LDB? Featuring a wraparound cover by the often magical INVINCIBLE and SCIENCE DOG co-creator, CORY WALKER.
In October, readers will get a chance to see a little piece of Sina Grace‘s own personal hell in Not My Bag, a new original graphic novel coming from Image Comics on October 10.
Grace is the artist on the indie comics favorite The Li’l Depressed Boy, written by S. Steven Struble, and was editor of Robert Kirkman’s comics until stepping down to pursue a full-time art career. In Not My Bag, he chronicles the six months of his life that he spent as a sales associate in an upscale department store. Grace tries to cater to both customers’ taste and the demands of his management, all while the ghosts of relationships past haunt him and his artistic dreams wait for the bills to be paid.
A preview of Not My Bag appears in The Walking Dead #102.
A 96-page, black-and-white graphic novel, Not My Bag (AUG120476) will be in stores on October 10. It is available for pre-order now from the August issue of Previews.
The Li’l Depressed Boy #11
Story by: S Steven Struble Art By: Sina Grace
Price: $2.99
“THREE SKETCHES OF A WORKPLACE CRUSH”
New job? Check. New crush? Check. Know her name? Not making that mistake again. How will the Li’l Depressed Boy handle such close proximity to a girl he likes.
Li’l Depressed Boy #10
Story by: S Steven Struble Art By: Sina Grace
Price: $2.99
“WORRIED SHOES”
The Li’l Depressed Boy’s new job finds him in unfamiliar territory. Fighting his more anti-social nature, LDB struggles to make it through the first day.
Li’l Depressed Boy #8
Story by: S Steven Struble Art By: Sina Grace
Price: $2.99
“IN A WORLD OF GHOSTS”
The Li’l Depressed Boy has weathered many storms while on the road with Drew Blood, and returns home only to find Jazz waiting on his front stoop. How will LDB react to the return of the girl who broke his heart” Also: why is the lock on his door broken” Featuring a cover by the impossibly dreamy PHONOGRAM artist JAMIE MCKELVIE.
Official Press Release
BETWEEN A (LI’L DEPRESSED) BOY AND A GIRL
Image Comics collects cult favorite web series this February
Berkeley, CA – 23 November 2010 – He found a home first on the Internet. Now, Li’l Depressed Boy comes to print with LI’L DEPRESSED BOY #1, out this February from Image Comics.
LI’L DEPRESSED BOY follows the adventures of a ragdoll as he goes about his ordinary life. In the first issue, Li’l Depressed Boy meets girl, with all the romantic and stylish lovelorn charm that characterizes movies such as (500) Days of Summer.
The cult favorite web series was created in 2005 by S. Steven Struble, a comic colorist (CHEW, Kick Drum Comix) and nationally competing slam poet, who continues to write the series. Early Li’l Depressed Boy strips were drawn by comics luminaries such as Sam Keith (THE MAXX), Jamie McKelvie (PHONOGRAM), Jim Mahfood (MIXTAPE), and more. Sina Grace took over art duties on the acclaimed web comic in 2008. His illustrations can be seen in various publications, most recently in Among the Ghosts, a young adult novel written by Amber Benson (Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
“The Li’l Depressed Boy comes from so many personal experiences, which I think correlates to why people relate to the story,” says Struble. “We’ve all been that quiet person who can barely muster a smile. With Sina as the regular artist and our first story arc together under the Image ‘I,’ it’s a dream come true.”
Adds Grace, “When I started drawing the Li’l Depressed Boy, I was so excited to be collaborating with someone who wanted to tackle comics the same way I did: with earnestness, fun, and a touch of self-deprecation. After all these years, I’m happy to say that the work we are presenting with Image Comics maintains those core values.”
LI’L DEPRESSED BOY #1 (diamond code), a 32-page full-color comic book for $2.99, will be in stores February 9, 2011. Meet the Li’l Depressed Boy by visiting www.lildepressedboy.com.
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
