Having just returned from a great work-cation at this year’s SPX (selling my comics to a comics-thirsty public and then drinking wine like a wine-thirsty Bacchus), all I can think about right now is the […]
This weekend is the much beloved Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland! Many many many folks who make comics that Forbidden Planet NYC carries will be here, including your humble author (table H12, the one […]
The Malaise Trap is an amazing character study (with a fantastic title…I love a clever title). So complete and well-considered is the narrative that I was convinced that I was reading an autobiographical account. Writer […]
Sidewalk Bump #2 by Dan Moynihan, Craig Bostick, Dave Kiersh, John Isaacson, Jared Katz, Missy Kulik, Alec Longstreth, Jim Rugg, and Francois Vigneault. I almost didn’t review this book. I know that this is probably […]
If you’re in the area, come by and show your support for the indie comics scene at this years Philly Alt Con! Doors open at noon on the 14th! Check out the site for more details.I’ll […]
It’s been pretty crazy these past several weeks, here in the basement of Forbidden Planet NYC. There was the heat wave … and other things to, I suspect. I just remember the heat wave, then […]
I have burrowed my way to the center of the mini comics pile in search of the Mole King, who has made off with my girlfriend. Evidently I insulted the Mole Peoples’ widely held belief […]
If one is not careful, a fellow co-worker can cause an avalanche of mini-comics (or “comicslanch”, from the roots “comics” and “brucevilanch”) by speaking too loudly or inadvertently sitting on a Talking Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man […]
“Only you yourself can be your liberator.” “Science, I’m going to plant a bomb under your ass!!” –Wilhelm Reich What many do not know about the mole people of the subter-land labyrinths of the hollow […]
The pile continues to smother me in her inky embrace; once more I reach my dusty mit into her toothy hide and pluck free three mini-comics at random. — Water and Fall by Martine Workman www.martinealicia.com […]
Once more it is time for me to claw frantically into the pile of mini comics that traps me and to decide what to review. And so, under the watchful-yet-unmoved eyes of the assorted subterranean […]
This weekend, come out to Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 for the annual Mini Zine Fest! Cartoonists Sara Lindo (Carl Finds Love, Wall Street Cat) and Steve Seck (Life Is Good) […]
Welcome, wayward traveler, to the very first edition of Morgan Pielli’s Pile of Minis, wherein I slowly dig my way out from under an enormous pile of mini-comics that collapsed on me, trapping me in […]
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