Tag: Slave Labor Graphics

  • Fighting Crime and Raging Hormones in Shadoweyes in Love

    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…

  • Lenore: Cooties TPB Review

    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…

  • Elmer Graphic Novel Review

    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.…

  • The Vesha Valentine Story Revealed

    The Vesha Valentine Story Revealed

    New Art/Story Book Tells Life Story of Fictional Bombshell. Press Release: From the cabarets of Paris to the big screen in Tinsel Town, Vesha Valentine has broken hearts, entertained millions and suffered more ups and downs in her life as she struggled with both the fortunes and losses brought on by fame. The Vesha Valentine…

  • Nightmares and Fairy Tales Returns with Original Artist

    Nightmares and Fairy Tales Returns with Original Artist

    Serena Valentino and FSc team up on new miniseries Press Release: In Nightmares and Fairy Tales, a comic series by Serena Valentino and FSc launched in 2001, an antique doll named Annabelle, passed from owner to owner, holds frightening secrets and stories of love, betrayal, violence, and madness. Annabelle doesn’t know why doomed women are…

  • The Royal Historian of Oz #2 Comic Review

    The Royal Historian of Oz #2 Comic Review

    $2.95, Slave Labor Graphics Story: Tommy Kovac Art: Andy Hirsch The first issue of Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch’s The Royal Historian of Oz playfully poked fun at writers who regurgitate treasured literary creations while indulging in the act itself. The basic premise behind the series is that Jasper Fizzle, a lacklustre writer who’s devoted…

  • My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer: Volume Two Review

    My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer: Volume Two Review

    2010, Slave Labor Graphics Story, Art: Ken Knudtsen After a 7 year hiatus, Ken Knudtsen’s warped series about a transvestite monkey and his irritating young captor returns. The shifting planes of the indie comic market have meant that this delayed second volume was conceived as a graphic novel rather than initially printed as a monthly…

  • The Sisters’ Luck Graphic Novel Review

    2010, Slave Labor Graphics Story, Art: Shari Chankhamma Some buggers get all the luck, eh? Or at least they do in The Sisters’ Luck, a graphic novel by Thai artist Shari Chankhamma (The Clarence Principle) in which luck is a visible energy that individuals unconsciously exchange and attract. Enter twin sisters Umbra and Untumbra, who…