Zen Pencils
English
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Comic - Non-Fiction
Cartoonist ZOE THOROGOOD records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate metanarrative that looks into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.
A poignant, slice-of-life-style story perfect for fans of Adrian Tomine's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist.
Coup-Thirty
Comic - Non-Fiction
New Fill-In issue of the ZINE!
Featuring:
Nolan Void, Latinum, Guerrilla Teens, Portland Organic Wrestling, Greg Bigoni, Eric Larsen (of Savage Dragon fame), Mark Death, Plane Crash, Jet Hag, Charlotte Treuse, Carrie Wilkins, Barry Ward, The Crosstops, Will Carroll, Old Grandad, The Incinerators, Brittany Meyer-Strom, The Homemakers, The Crawlers, Velvet Merkin, Renegade Leathers, Greg Dimick, Thundering Asteroids, Rocco's Radio Pizzeria, Screaming Trees, Frankie's of Toledo, Kevin J Taylor, Portland Elvis, Barry Brusseau and Friends, Somerset Meadows, Kalichrome, Pink Tornado, Fear of Dissolving, Monty Vega and the Sittin' Shivas, Dr. Camille Waring, Mothers Whiskey, The Shitfits, Strangle The Priest, La Predateur, Steve Wilkinson, I-5 Killers vol 3, Lisa Miyamoto, Wendy Weiss, Seth Rhoades, Piss Test, The Secrets of Isis, Cliterati, and more...
Kiss: The End
Comic - Non-Fiction
What lies beyond our world? Is there a heaven? Is there a hell? When a young man finds himself on the wrong side of life, he encounters Death itself and is set on a quest to seek out his errant demon offspring in an attempt to make his way back to the world of the living! But there is much peril on the way and the only ones who can help him are KISS!
IT'S A LIVING: Surviving as a Freelancer in the 21st Century
Graphic Novel - Non-Fiction
FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND WORK FOR YOURSELF
★★★★★ "The Artist's Way for the 21st century!"
Whether you want to quit your 9-5 job to be self-employed or streamline your career to be more efficient, IT'S A LIVING is for you!
Join artist and writer Cristian Aluas as he dives deep into what makes us artists and why it's important to be true to yourself in the pursuit of your passions.
Shape of Ideas
Comic - Non-Fiction
“[Snider has] created something unique: a synthesis of comics, philosophy, and poetry: a thoughtful new way of packaging eternal ideas in cartoon boxes.” —The Los Angeles Review of BooksWhat does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian knots, prompt even more questions. Whether you are a professional artist or designer, a student pursuing a creative career, a person of faith, someone who likes walks on the beach, or a dreamer who sits on the front porch contemplating life, this collection of one- and two-page comics will provide insight into the joys and frustrations of creativity, inspiration, and process—no matter your age or...
The Oatmeal: How to Be Perfectly Unhappy
Comic - Comedy
In How To Be Perfectly Unhappy, Inman explores the surprising benefits of forgetting about “happiness,” and embracing instead the meaningful activities that keep us busy and interested and fascinated.
Portugal
Comic - Non-Fiction
From the author of the acclaimed Equinoxes comes a return to roots that serves as spiritual renewal. Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comics convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. Even though he is a foreigner there, so many elements of the country are familiar to him. Meeting its lively citizens and recounting early memoreis brought by back his distant yet welcoming family all prove reinvigorating—the breath of fresh air he so badly needed. Based on his own experience, Pedrosa narrates this return to his roots in a deeply compelling and warmly human way....