Funny Animals and Teen-Age Hi-Jinks
by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby
In 1947, after their genre-defining superhero work and World War II and before their groundbreaking romance work, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby turned out funny animal comics and teenage comedy. This collection brings together some of their rarest work — light, funny, full of mid-century charm — back in print for the first time in decades.
Story and art by the legendary Simon & Kirby!
Lettering by Howard Ferguson!
Coloring by… unknown 1940s color person!
Art restored and introduction by Simon & Kirby expert Harry Mendryk
Context, info, and erudite interpretation by:
Kirby Museum director Rand Hoppe
Cartoonist and teacher Mark Badger
Jack Kirby’s friend and underground cartoonist Bruce Simon
Romance comics scholar Sydney Heifler and possibly more!
Lovingly curated and shepherded by the Kirby Museum Press
Joe Bob Briggs & Darcy the Mail Girl Present MonsterVision
Two Unexpected Heroes of the Drive In Fight Monsters in The Strangest Ways! Join Us For the Weirdest Rodeo You’ve Ever Seen in Comics!
MONSTERVISION IS BACK, BABY!
FIVE ISSUES. ONE GRAPHIC NOVEL. ZERO ADULT SUPERVISION.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING STORY CONTAINS MONSTERS, COMICS, HORROR, COLLECTIBLES, BAD DECISIONS, EXCESSIVE SIGNATURES, ORIGINAL ART, AND THINGS THAT ARE DEFINITELY NOT COVERED BY YOUR HOMEOWNER’S INSURANCE.
So turn down the lights. Lock the doors. Check the back seat.
And for the love of God…
DO NOT GO INTO THE BASEMENT.
Because MONSTERVISION IS BACK!
And this time, it’s coming to your bookshelf. The complete five-issue series is being collected into a monstrous 128-page MonsterVision graphic novel, available in paperback, hardcover, signed editions, deluxe editions, and some extremely collectible variations.
The books are being made. The monsters are already loose. This campaign is your opportunity to pre-order the edition you want.
WELCOME TO THE DRIVE-IN
You know the rules. You bring the popcorn. You bring the beer. We supply the MonsterVision!
MONSTERS – MONSTERS – AND MORE MONSTERS!
The MonsterVision graphic novel collects all five issues of the Dynamite series into one glorious 128-page collection. Five comics. One convenient place to keep all the monsters. And you can pre-order it as a softcover trade paperback or hardcover edition. No hunting down five individual issues. But we’ve got some special single issues too for fans who love the rare variants! It’s time to celebrate Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl’s MonsterVision!
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Metal Eagle 1-2 Winds of Change
In Berlin the band is looking for an artifact from WW2 while influencing events to change the future of Berlin and possible the world!
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The Estranged: A Sapphic Horror Thriller
High School tore Heather and Albion apart; will a Demon bring them back together? Mean Girls meets Hellraiser.
Brujas in HELL’s O.G.
Three legendary brujas. One epic strain. Nothing between them and a good time but El Diablo himself!
What happens when three legendary brujas go off in search of one epic herbal remedy that leads them on a fast track to hell?
BRUJAS is a 23-page supernatural adventure starring three of the most infamous figures in Latin American folklore: La Llorona, the Donkey Lady, and La Lechuza. It’s ready to send to print once the campaign funds roll up.
The brujas are on a mission to get their hands on the ultimate herbal remedy, a rare and incredibly potent strain said to be the finest magical herb in existence.
Unfortunately, they know exactly where they have to go…
The Devil has been keeping the legendary Hell’s O.G. for himself, and if the brujas want some, they’re going to have to go straight to the source.
Their plan is simple: get into Hell, find the Devil’s stash, and get out. Unfortunately, for these witches, nothing is ever easy…
With St. Michael the Archangel on their trail, demons standing between them and their prize, and the entire underworld waiting to make things difficult, the brujas are about to discover that the hardest part of a supernatural quest isn’t getting into Hell… it’s getting out with what you came for.
BRUJAS mixes Latin American folklore, supernatural horror, comedy, and occult weirdness into a fast-moving adventure that takes these legendary creatures somewhere you’ve never seen them before. Think Pineapple Express meets spooky BRATZ.
Are you ready to take a legendary road trip with three baddies to secure a legendary herb? Yeah you are.
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Death Transit Tanager 4
A young woman ferries the souls of the dead to the afterlife in this supernatural sci-fi comic book series by Karl Kerschl.
Tanager Ray can speak to the dead. One of a handful of young women who have this strange ability, she works as a Death Transit – a ferryman for lost souls stuck between here and the afterlife.
Some of those souls don’t want to go.
Inspired by Metroid and Hellboy and a LOT of manga and anime, DEATH TRANSIT TANAGER is Karl Kerschl’s critically-acclaimed, ongoing sci-fi horror/action comic book series.
In this FOURTH issue, Tanager is called in to help a young Death Transit who’s been possessed by a malevolent spirit. The only thing to do? Call an exorcist!
A funeral ceremony gone horribly wrong! Tanager Ray is sent in to help a fellow Death Transit who seems to be possessed by a demon. A demon she may have met before
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EVEL KNIEVEL 1-2 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant
The legendary daredevil is BACK, mopping the floor with outlaw bikers at the Cow Palace. From Half Evil Comics, publisher of THE JUMP.
The legendary daredevil EVEL KNIEVEL makes the death-defying leap into comics in his very first full-length series from the fine folks at Half Evil Comics!
Brought to life by Ringo Award-winning writer Rylend Grant (THE JUMP and THE PEACEKEEPERS), artist Dave Acosta (TERRORWAR, ELVIRA, and DRAGON), Letterer HdE, and editor R.E. Nelson… with some real bitchin’ covers by Flops, Jon Pinto, Federico De Luca, Dexter Wee, Davi Leon Dias, & Ray-Anthony Height.
Made possible with TONS of support from the Evel Knievel Brand, Kelly Knievel (Evel’s son), and the fine folks at the Evel Knievel Museum.
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BODY BAGS: Omnibus – Oversized Slipcase Hardcover
The BODY BAGS: Omnibus collects all of Jason Pearson’s epic stories for the first time ever. 9? x 12? Slipcase Hardcover
Wrapped in a cover by legendary artist Michael Golden, BODY BAGS: Father’s Day #1 was released with little fanfare. But this stunning comic book shocked the industry and became an immediate sellout. It quickly flew onto the Wizard Magazine‘s “Top 10 Hottest Comics” list, eventually being labeled “one of the most controversial comics of the ‘90s.”
Jason Pearson had announced himself to the world as a powerful writer/artist combo—a creative force few had seen coming in such fashion—with a story and characters that would speak to people in a way Jason could never have imagined.
Following the initial miniseries, the continuing stories of Clownface (Mack Delgado) and his estranged daughter, Panda, never came out as quickly as fans—or Jason—would have liked. But what was completed and released has stood the test of time, influencing a long list of today’s most talented creators, inspiring new artists, and capturing scores of loyal fans over the last three decades.
Best of all, the fans who love it love everything about it: the beautiful art, the over-the-top violence, and the touching, endearing story. It was one of those perfect combinations that simply stuck with people. Now, 30 years after its bombastic introduction, the late Jason Pearson’s creation remains as impactful as ever.
And that is why we’ve launched this Kickstarter.
To Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of BODY BAGS, 12-Gauge is offering an Oversized Slipcase Hardcover Omnibus Edition of the beloved series for the first time ever! (Standard Edition also available without the Slipcase.)
The book is a perfect showcase for the story, coming in at 9?x12? in-size and 275+ pages (up to 25 more pages will be added if stretch goals are met, for a total count of 300 pages).
This book collects every published comic from Jason Pearson’s critically acclaimed series, along with his online short stories, character designs, a cover gallery, concept art, and much more. JUST LIKE JASON IMAGINED IT.
Yes, this book was something Jason had wanted back in the late ’00s, but the timing wasn’t quite right for an omnibus. Now, celebrating 30 years of the series, the timing is finally perfect.
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Nap Comix First Steps
Bringing year two of the acclaimed webcomic to life in graphic novel form.
Nap Comix: First Steps is a love letter to the weirdness and wonderfulness of children just starting to find their own voice and personality.
This book explores Rachael’s son Henry becoming his own person. He walks! He talks! He has some strong opinions on…everything! Rachael continues to delight in him. This book is a heartwarming, heartbreaking, hilarious collection of diary comics about being a mum by award-winning writer-artist Rachael Smith.
Nap Comix: First Steps follows on from Rachael’s book Nap Comix – but you do not need to have read that book to enjoy this one.
British Book Award and Harvey Award nominee Rachael Smith is renowned for making people feel less alone through her comics [see Wired Up Wrong (depression), Stand in Your Power (break-ups), Glass Half Empty (grief and addiction), and Quarantine Comix (the pandemic)] and so when she became a mother it was a natural progression for Rachael to record the highs and lows in delightful comic strips.
The result was Nap Comix, short strips which Rachael made while Henry was napping and posted online for her friends. So many people related to Rachael’s comics that she decided to make a book. The first Nap Comix collection featured the best of those early strips, covering Henry’s first year. Now Nap Comix: First Steps continues the story where it begins to get interesting in exciting new ways…
Nap Comix: First Steps will be 200 pages long, which will include all the webcomics from the second year of Henry’s life, as well as around 40 pages of book-exclusive content. This will be the first time any of these comics have been published in book-form.
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Space Hell
An all-new 24-page black & white one-shot comic book of creeping dread and science fiction horror in the darkness of space.
Recovering from a life-shattering event, Ming and Callum have taken the most mindless and remote job they could find as custodians of a hodgepodge space station barely functioning just beyond the middle of nowhere space.
They wanted to get away from Earth and everyone on it for a while and find solace alone amongst the stars, and maybe themselves again in the process
A mysterious ship helmed by ungodly Space Hellions is going to ruin that quiet solitude…
…but maybe this test of survival is just what Ming and Callum actually need to remember why they want to live.
Hopefully it’s not too late.
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A Pocketbook of Woodfolk and Fairies from Natalie Andrewson
The next installment of fantasy critters and whimsical storytelling from Natalie Andrewson
The Book:
The plan is to ship by October 2027, with plenty of time to make this book a special object worthy of repeated visits. It’s meant to be opened and enjoyed anywhere, not just chronologically, so the viewer can experience it as they choose. Similar to her ‘A Dragon’s Fairytale’ notebook, this Woodfolk book will include special, golden age book inspired details for the cover like either a fabric spine or entire cover, a pasted illustration, and delicate embossing, but at a scale and size closer to Dreaming in Color.
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BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE IV: Me and The Devil
The Triad of Typhon are approaching their end game. With Benny under their control, who will stop them? Catch up with the whole series!
BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE IV: Me and The Devil
Captured by the nefarious Grischa, Benny is completely under the spell of The Triad of Typhon. With Iris also held against her will, who will stop the Triad in fulfilling their mysterious end game?
This book picks up shortly after BFKK III: Hellhound On My Trail and delves deep into the Triad of Typhon and the alternate dimension of what Benny calls The Unreal.
Written by Dan Price & Casey Allen. Art by Domenico Pagano. Colors by Dan Price. Published by Homebrewed Comics.
Confused? Have no fear! Catch up with the series with our Digital and Physical Bundles.
Get all the back issues of BFKK including Chapters 1 – 3, as well as our one-shots, BFKK: Hinagon and BFKK: God Killer. Learn more about each issue further down this page.
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Maximum Zorro!
Experience Zorro in his past, present and future adventures
Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as ZORRO®… Yes, the justice driven renegade is back with new stories from legendary creators!
Alien Books (currently in a publishing partnership with Valiant Comics and distributed through IDW Publishing) and Zorro Productions, Inc. proudly present an exceptional project for all fans: an exploration of the best Zorro® stories from the past, present and future!
If you liked our previous Zorro® by Alex Toth Deluxe Edition in 2025, get ready for more greatness!
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THE WHITE ROOK by Abigail Jill Harding
Parliament of Rooks returns! Ask for Mercy Whitby Vampire Weekend concludes!
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 13
Link: THE WHITE ROOK by Abigail Jill Harding
E WHITE ROOK: A NIGHT IN PURGATORY is the next, NEW installment of the PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS series. A NIGHT IN PURGATORY is a 30-page story through the world of the subconscious, and serves as both an epilogue to PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS and a prologue to our new ongoing series THE WHITE ROOK! You can order the PRINT edition or a digital copy as part of your support for this campaign.
A NIGHT IN PURGATORY follows a young girl who wakes up in a cage in the highest of towers with only a White Rook for company. Who is she? Where does she come from? What does the White Rook signify? All the girl knows is that she must heed the rook’s call and follow this mysterious bird out into the land beyond… a land of restless spirits where dark and terrible things slumber.
PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS is the Eisner nominated Gothic Horror, Dark Fantasy Romance comic book series that followed the story of Darius Ravenscar and Princess Seraphina. PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS is now collected in trade paperback and is also available as a signed edition as part of this Kickstarter!
ASK FOR MERCY: WHITBY VAMPIRE WEEKEND concludes in the ALL-NEW PART THREE and is available as part of this Kickstarter! Our band of monster’s weekend away in the little fishing town of Whitby, in the north east coast of England has long been associated with Dracula! In celebration of Goth Culture, Whitby hosts a Goth weekend there every year.
Mercy and her crew have tracked an extra-terrestrial craft that crash landed in Whitby harbour and have now confronted its occupant! But where is it from and how will Mercy and Ratmir solve the riddle of Whitby’s most recent visitor from lands — and space — beyond?
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Come On, Texas: The USS Texas (BB-35) Graphic Novel
From WWI to D-Day. A 130-page hardcover graphic novel and archival tribute to the world’s last surviving dreadnought.
n 1910, two rival empires were locked in a relentless race to build the biggest guns afloat; Britain and Germany launched dreadnought after dreadnought, while America watched, calculated, and forged her answer.
That answer was BB-35, armed with ten formidable 14-inch rifles that placed her among the hardest-hitting warships of the US Navy.
Commissioned on March 12, 1914, as the USS Texas, she would outlast the era of her makers and serve far longer than anyone dared imagine. Official history remembers the armor, the firepower, and the battle honors, but it rarely honors the men deep beneath the armored deck who fueled that thunder.
That is precisely where our story begins. World of Warships and MOZUMA present
Having fought across two World Wars from the freezing patrol lines of the North Sea in 1918 to the thunderous naval bombardment of D-Day in 1944 the USS Texas (BB-35) stands today as the world’s last surviving dreadnought, currently preserved on the Galveston coast to endure for another century.
Come On, Texas is a 130-page hardcover graphic novel created in collaboration with World of Warships as the second volume in the Legends series, chronicling this colossal legacy through three generations of one family bound by a single pocketknife. In 1917, coal passer
Stanislaw Kowalski sneaks below deck to carve ‘KOWALSKI’ into an obscured bulkhead; in 1944, as 14-inch shells pound Pointe du Hoc, his son Frank cuts his own name beneath his father’s with the very same blade; and today, 28-year-old gamer Mike Kowalski spots that family mark during a live broadcast from the ship, flies out to the hull in Texas, and etches the third name into history
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AHOY Comics Presents DRAGONPROOF
A directionless 20-something finds herself the unexpected champion of an endangered population of dragons in this 96 page graphic novel
Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest on an ill-fate camping trip, Ashleigh Cole stumbles upon a dying dragon in the woods, its hide peppered with bullet wounds and tattooed with U.S. military markings. Ash returns to her mundane life, convinced her experience in the woods was all just a hallucination—until she begins to display some oddly dragonlike characteristics herself. Compelled by voices in the back of her mind, Ash undertakes a mission to rescue other captive dragons and help the mythical creatures escape—but the shadowy government organization determined to turn them into weapons of mass destruction has other plans… Funny, heartfelt, and action-packed, DRAGONPROOF will appeal to adult readers who grew up on Buffy and Gargoyles and capture the imagination of post-YA readers of The Fourth Wing, ACOTAR, and more.
DRAGONPROOF, a standalone 96-page graphic novel (and the second book in the AHOY SELECT series of crowdfunded projects) about a directionless 20-something who unexpectedly finds herself the champion of an endangered population of dragons.
The book will also feature color work by Gab Contreras and a cover by Tango. TWO exclusive hardcover editions, featuring covers by interior artist Giulia Lalli and Daniel Govar, are also available and will only ever be available through this Kickstarter campaign.
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The Objectivist
Only you can help bring the first original graphic novel by acclaimed creators CURT PIRES, ALEX DIOTTO, and LUCA CASALANGUIDA to life!
Acclaimed and bestselling collaborators Curt Pires (Lost Fantasy, Indigo Children), and , Alex Diotto (INDIGO CHILDREN, YOUTH) and Luca Casalanguida (James Bond, Lost Fantasy) join forces with superstar cover-artist Jae Lee (Inhumans, Batman / Superman), for their first original graphic novel: THE OBJECTIVIST. And ONLY YOU can help bring it to life!
WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVIST?
The Objectivist is a 140 page original graphic novel in the OUTLAW COMICS tradition. Inspired by comics such as THE QUESTION, BATMAN YEAR ONE, SIN CITY and Steve Ditko’s MR. A, The Objectivist tells the story of one man, inspired by a violent vigilante comic strip, who takes a stand amidst a corrupt city in a state of decay. But as he mounts his one man war on crime and corruption, he begins to question his sanity, and the morality of what he’s doing.
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AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE MAUSOLEUM EDITION VOL. 1
Resurrecting Francesco Francavilla’s iconic art from Archie Comics’ horror hit in one titanic hardcover – in gruesomely glorious B&W!
In the days before Halloween 2013, Harvey Award-winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Eisner Award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla unleashed something unthinkable onto the shelves of comics shops around the world … and transformed the sunshine-strewn streets of America’s most perpetually charming smalltown, Riverdale, into the shadow-laden site of a full-on zombie onslaught. Ravaged by the undead, Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and all of Archie Comics’ most famous icons would find themselves utterly transformed and powerfully reimagined as the comic industry’s most unlikely and unexpected horror anti-heroes within the pages of of Aguirre-Sacasa & Francavilla’s AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE – detonating the first blast of a sold-out, smash-hit series that would immediately and definitively redefine the art and intensity of Archie Comics for a new generation.
Unrelentingly celebrated by critics and ferociously followed by fans, AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE immediately became a jugular-ripping legend in its own time – due in no small part to the terrifying, tense, and uncannily atmospheric artwork of illustrator Francesco Francavilla, who quickly defined himself as one of his generation’s most instantly iconic and sought-after artists over the course of the series’ gut-wrenching run.
Now, on the cusp of the upcoming AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE live-action streaming series adaptation slated to debut on Disney+ in 2027, Oni Press is proud to introduce a new and chilling perspective on the ultimate Archie Comics horror tale ever told … re-presenting Francavilla’s raw, unexpurgated black-and-white artwork for the first time anywhere in a staggeringly oversized, 11”x17” tombstone-sized format so haunting that it could only be called the AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE: MAUSOLEUM EDITION VOL. 1.
Reproducing Francavilla’s complete interior artwork and covers from AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #1-6 in crisp and creepy B&W at the size of full-scale comics artboard and remastered by the artist himself, the AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE: MAUSOLEUM EDITION VOL. 1 is the ultimate way for readers, collectors, and appreciators of original art to experience every disturbing detail of a once-in-a-lifetime horror comics masterpiece … as rendered by a truly legendary talent of the comics medium.