Befor hover parents, children ran wild. The wildest of these feral children were the Switchblade Shorties, operating as a kind of foul-mouthed, irreverent Our Gang: “Sodapop” Tanner, Pinky Winslow, Sheena Belvedere, “Charly Horse” Kinison and Foster Lambert. When their friend Petey Wheatcakes disappears, the Switchblade Shorties turn off their video games and try to find him. Instead, they encounter aliens, Bigfoot, werewolves, and more in this twisted ode to the 1990s – an era before the internet destroyed our imaginations.

Earlier this year, the comics world lost a singular unique voice with the untimely passing of Ed Piskor. To celebrate his life and legacy, his family are picking up where he left off. They have united together to release his final unpublished work, Switchblade Shorties, as a gorgeous hardcover that fans of Ed’s work will not want to miss. Originally appearing as the backup strip Latchkey Kidz in Piskor’s Red Room, the strip was retitled Switchblade Shorties when officially launched online as its own daily comic strip.

The landscape formatted 12×9 hardcover book contains over 176 pages of Ed Piskor at his best. The book is written, drawn, colored and lettered by Piskor alone. His family has taken great measures to make this release as special as possible and ensure that the book is being presented exactly as Ed had originally intended.

Piskor’s family has been instrumental in ensuring the legacy of Ed Piskor remains a vibrant one in the world of comics, and that his contributions will be remembered for a long time to come.

The Life and Death of the Brave Captain Suave

The Life and Death of the Brave Captain Suave is a metatextual comic book series about a homeless man living in Cleveland, Ohio that believes he is an actual superhero.

Written by Joseph Sieracki and drawn by Kelly Williams, Captain Suave is a modern take on Don Quixote, and is collected here for the very first time in a beautiful upgraded softcover!

A homeless man that thinks he’s a superhero befriends an ex-nursing student with a penchant for drugs on the streets of Cleveland, Ohio. The unlikely pair find themselves bouncing from one mishap to another, all while trying to make a small but positive difference in the lives of those they encounter. A hero the city neither needs nor deserves, Captain Suave is a man out of time determined to be a Golden Age superhero. Not unlike Don Quixote of Cervantes’s classic tale, this hero will straddle the line between insanity and benevolence.

Along with his sidekick, Champ, Captain Suave will battle the imaginary forces of evil threatening the fair city of Cleveland. Stopping a wind turbine he mistakes for a hydra from demolishing the city, saving unwitting damsels in distress, and even thwarting real-life robbers, no evildoer is safe from the awesome and quixotic might of Captain Suave!

Why is this important?

A singular take on the superhero genre: Paying tribute to Cleveland’s storied history in comic books, Captain Suave is a hero like no other. Though he is only a superhero of the mind, he will show readers that it doesn’t take superpowers to do what’s right and help others.

Classic literary elements: Blending Golden Age superheroes with Don Quixote, this is a modern take on the Miguel de Cervantes classic, sure to excite both comic book and classic literature readers alike.

Unique visuals: Incorporating both hand-painted watercolors and digital coloring, different artistic styles depict the hero’s fantasy versus what’s happening in reality on the page. Employing a digital dot pattern evoking a Golden Age style of comic book coloring, what the hero believes is happening has a distinctly different feel from the real, painted world.

Jacked Tracts is a spirited satire of those notorious Christian comic tracts that thrilled and traumatized American kids throughout the late 20th Century. Its rollicking reexamination of these comics from a contemporary perspective is sure to delight believers and heathens alike! The 10 X 6 hardcover book is 148 pages long, and features work by 74 talented artists from around the world.

JACKED TRACTS is edited by cartoonist Danny Hellman, a contributor to DC Comics, Fantagraphics and countless other publications. Hellman also edited and published the critically-acclaimed alternative comics anthologies Legal Action Comics Volumes 1 & 2, and TYPHON.

Support the campaign for JACKED TRACTS now, lest ye be eternally damned!

The PANICK Primer Pack

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• P UM´KIDS –  8 Days Left
• Average Adventures of an Average Girl Volume 1– 5 Days Left

BIXBY GRANT, PRIVATE EYE: FANGS & BRIMSTONE IS A 30-PAGE COMIC BOOK. The full-color comic contains a Kickstarter-exclusive 20-page original story and a never-before seen  8-page back-up story.

Written by Patrick Coyle, with main story art by Gonzalo Martínez, colors by Arthur Hesli, and backup story art by Gonzalo Ruggieri, the 30 Page second issue of FANGS & BRIMSTONE stars everyone’s favorite mummy detective, Bixby Grant!

Tension is high in Harbor City: Four volunteers from the corrupt Mayor’s re-election campaign have been found dead, killed in elaborate cult ceremonies. The Mayor and his supporters blame the supernatural citizens of Harbor City for the killings, making every monster in city limits a suspect – including our heroes, Bixby Grant and Diego the rockabilly vampire! Bix dodges the cops, seeks help from old friends, and shakes down a cat burglar to try and solve this case before another body turns up. But will Bix’s personal history with the murder weapon cause him to push things too far, igniting the powder keg that is Harbor City?

It’s Hellboy meets The Spirit, with the tone of Batman: The Animated Series

White Ash is an ongoing, urban fantasy comic book series written by Charlie Stickney, with art by Conor Hughes, Julian Shaw, Tango and colors by Fin Cramb.
First launched on Kickstarter in 2017, White Ash is one of the longest running and most popular series on the platform.  With over 500 pages of story so far, now is the perfect time to join us.

This campaign, we are raising funds for the 44 page, White Ash: Chapter 08. 

In Chapter One, we met Aleck the son of a coal miner, who’d been counting down the hours till he could get the hell out of town and head off to college. Because shockingly, the last thing Aleck wanted out of his life, was to be… a coal miner.

But an apparent accident at the mine where his father was injured, stalled Aleck’s exit, setting him down a life-altering path.

And from there, things got CRAZY (that’s where all the fantasy elements come in)  We can’t really tell you too much without getting into heavy SPOILER TERRITORY.

Who isn’t fascinated by cunning corsairs cutting a conniving course from the Caspian to the Caribbean? (Well, maybe Tom H. from Fresno, California. But he also likes chicken on his pizza, so there’s that.)

Tales of pirates have been a part of popular culture since the first buccaneer ever burgled a brigand. But what is the real story on these seafaring sociopaths? Why did they have hooks and peglegs? Why did they bury their treasure? And why did they all say “Arr”?

Well, for the most part, they didn’t. Which is why I wrote and illustrated the 160 page, nonfiction graphic novel PIRATES: A GRAPHIC HISTORY (But not THAT kind of graphic.)

After spending most of my career illustrating Disney Comics for various publishers, I spent over five years researching piracy in all it’s incarnations. During these studies, I discovered these were not the swashbuckling cads with a taste for adventure that I grew up with. In reality they were no more than common criminals with fancy shirts and a thing for boats. The end result was a humorous, all-ages history of who these pirates were, what they did and how they committed all the deeds that made them infamous.

The book is divided in to three sections…

-A History of Pirates is a chronicle of these foul freebooters from the Bronze Age to modern times with an emphasis on piracy from the 1660’s to the 1730’s. Below are pages from various points in that history.

Boston Metaphysical Society: Vol. 2 Special Edition Hardback

The Boston Metaphysical Society Team is back in four exciting sequels all in one volume, plus new pin up art, and a new 10 page story.

This deluxe volume features not only our original sequels, Scourge of the Mechanical Men, The Spirit of Rebellion, Ghosts and Demons, and The Book of Demons, but new pin up art, PLUS A NEW and EXCLUSIVE TEN PAGE STORY with art by Claudia Balboni, into a huge 174 page book!

Without further ado, here’s our cover by the amazing Claudia Ianniciello (Critical Role, Dr. Who, White Ash Comics, and more!)

If you are new to the series, the original six issue mini-series is about an ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist who battle supernatural forces in late 1800’s Boston. They live in an alternate steampunk history where ghosts and demons are a normal part of life. Families known as the Great Houses control the economy of the Great States of America while the middle class and lower classes sole purpose are to serve the Great Houses.

The four sequels, Scourge of the Mechanical Men, The Spirit of Rebellion, Ghosts and Demons, and The Book of Demonsare all included in this Vol. 2 Special Edition. (Art by Gwynn Tavares.)

• The Scourge of the Mechanical Men:  Granville and Tesla are in a race for time to save Boston from a mysterious disease that turns human beings into machines.
• The Spirit of Rebellion: Caitlin flees to Philadelphia only to discover a ghost, a rebellion, and perhaps, her destiny.
• Ghosts and Demons: A disturbing dream leads Caitlin and the team to face off with a new enemy.
• The Book of Demons: When a Great House discovers Caitlin’s ability to control demons, she is kidnapped and forced to find and enslave one

When you back MOBSTER MASH on DAY ONE, you get these add-on items for absolutely FREE with your order! This includes:

• The campaign exclusive “Des Taylor Edition” Shiny Don Dracula Trading Card.
• The Double Sided Scarface Homage Bookmark.
• The A5 Double Sided Print (signed by Mobster Mash creator Will Robson)

PRIVATE DANCE #1-4: spicy comic where fantasy & reality meet

DOUBLE-SIZED SEASON FINALE! A steamy and exciting new issue about the dancers at a New York strip club.

The apocalypse has happened. For thirty minutes, demons spewed forth from the ground and it seemed like the world was coming to an end. And then suddenly, without warning…it just stopped. 

It’s a premature apocalypse, I’m told it happens to everybody.

Three years later: Sheila Garcia is a Chicago detective who has a streak of being reckless. Like she has some kind of death wish. No one wants to partner with her. So she’s assigned Horace Nightengale as her new partner – the first demon detective.

Just as they’re starting to get along, they catch their first case. Which is the last homicide that will ever happen.

Why would someone kill Death? And what kind of hell breaks loose now that he’s dead?

Demon City is a 168 page full color deluxe hardcover graphic novel for mature readers.

A horror / crime noir / buddy cop story. For readers who love movies like Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys, and Die Hard – but with a supernatural twist, like HellBoy, Blade, or Bright.

THE BREACH #1 from Screenwriter Rylend Grant

BLACK MIRROR-esque sci-fi from the Ringo Award-winning creator of THE JUMP, ABERRANT, BANJAX, and THE PEACEKEEPERS.

Young Men in Love: New Romance

The return of the Ringo Award and GLAAD Media Award winning anthology. New Stories, New Romance!

This is a follow up to the award-winning first volume, which won the GLAAD Media Award, a Ringo Award, a Gayming Mag Award, and was nominated for a Dwayne McDuffie Diversity in Comics Award.

While it isn’t necessary to read the first volume to enjoy this new collection, we have made it available as well. We’re also offering the new book with two different covers, both by the amazingly talented Ricardo Bessa!