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Egg Story Review
2011, Slave Labor Graphics
Written and Illustrated by J. Marc Schmidt
Comic artists, animators and cartoonists have anthropomorphised everything from dinosaurs to wabbits, but outside of Humpty Dumpty I’d be hard pressed to name another tale committed to sentient eggs. A dark comedy on the fragility of life, Marc Schmidt’s Egg Story chronicles the beginnings, ends and omelettes of a … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, small press
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Byron Returns to SLG as Digital-only Comic
Once you have survived drugged toads, vampire attacks, and the attempted realignment of reality. What else in life can possibly phase you. Karl Christian Krumpholz tackles that question as his erstwhile hero Byron returns for another set of adventures in an all new comic book series Byron: Die Byron Die, from SLG Publishing. Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Comics, horror comics, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, small press
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Amity Blamity: Book One Review
2011, SLG Publishing
Written & illustrated by Mike White
Amity Blamity follows mute four year-old Gretchen and Chester, a potbellied pig whose ability to talk seems to have earned him a place in Gretchen’s grandmother’s home, rather than hanging from and abattoir hook. Their serene, Pooh-esque playtime is frequently disrupted by Winston, a paranoid gerbil riding a shopping trolley, and … read more
Life with a Chance of Exploding
New SLG Graphic Novel Loserville Explores Meaning of Life and Explosions
Press Release: Jenna’s life is stagnating. Her husband is a slacker, her job isn’t worth the stress, and hypochondria is her only diversion. That is, until she starts getting symptoms of what doctors are calling “the worst disease in the world,” and it’s not all in her head. Loserville, … read more
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In Between Days in ‘The Floundering Time’
New Graphic Novel from SLG in May
Press Release: It’s graduation week, and Emma is having to move forward whether she wants to or not. There are crushes to confess, sexuality to sort out, and a few (or maybe more than a few) last drinks to down with her best friend Joey. In her debut graphic novel, The Floundering Time, … read more
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SLG Creator’s Studio Drop in and Draw Event
When: 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Thursday February 10th
Where: SLG Art Boutiki, 577 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Jazz and Comic Books are two original American art-forms, and SLG Publishing will be marrying the two during it’s Jazz Warehouse event.
Press Release: This is the first in what we hope will be a monthly Jazz and Drawing jam. … read more
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Tagged all-ages comics, comic art, indie comics, music, Slave Labor Graphics
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Amity Blamity: A Fun For All-Ages Farmland Adventure
Pot bellies, pigtails and flying garlic invade the family farm in new SLG graphic novel series
Press Release: Starting a new job is an adventure for anyone, but when you are a four-year old girl working in the barnyard offices of a pot-bellied pig adventure becomes more than a euphemism. So goes Amity Blamity, the new graphic novel series by … read more
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Fighting Crime and Raging Hormones in Shadoweyes in Love
Second volume of critically-acclaimed series by Ross Campbell due out in April
Press Release: Scout Montana has just started to come to terms with turning into a mutant and becoming a superhero, but fate decided that isn’t enough complication in the life of the teenage vigilante. In the second volume of Ross Campbell’s critically acclaimed SLG Publishing series Shadoweyes, as … read more
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Lenore: Cooties TPB Review
2010, Titan Books
Written and illustrated by Roman Dirge
Cooties is the third hardback outing for Lenore, a quirky gothic minx who’s featured in a regular comic series and several animated shorts, and seems destined to grace black T-shirts for many years to come. Collecting the final third of the original Slave Labor Graphics run (entitled Lenore, the Cute Little … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, Titan Books
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Elmer Graphic Novel Review
2010, Slave Labor Graphics
Written and Illustrated by Gerry Alanguilan
Gerry Alanguilan’s Elmer requires its readers to draw upon their ability to suspend disbelief. It’s the sort of book that, if you were to put it aside and apply a minimal degree of logic to its plot, would seem ridiculous to the point of unreadable. Yet Gerry Alanguilan fills his … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, self-published, Slave Labor Graphics, World Comics
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