Burn Moneys Burn
This weekend I picked up a bunch of minis from Desert Island, which to my mind is one of the best little comic shops in NYC. The guy who owns it, Gabriel Fowler (thank you internet), is very nice and there all the time so it's not a completely anonymous shopping experience. I'm so excited to talk about indie comics no one else I know reads that I probably come off as a little overeager and dorky but I'm fine with that. He asked me if I make comics and I said that I've done a couple things and am working on a webcomic right now and he said I should bring in some stuff. He keeps the minis on consignment which is pretty neat... I like buying comics that local artists have dropped off themselves. It makes me feel like the money isn't going into some big conglomerate's pocket.

So, stuff I bought this week:

Fart Party #4 1/2, #6, #7, Julia Wertz
Welcome to the Dahl House, Ken Dahl
Bugbear #1, Eleanor Davis & Drew Weing
FLUKE Anthology #6, Edited by Eleanor Davis
Eighth Days Out, Sarah Glidden
Conversation #2, James Kochalka & Jeffrey Brown

I think that may be it... at least ye gads I hope so. I also ended up buying Peepshow by Joe Matt for Simon, although hopefully he'll pay me back for that.



The Fart Party material is all available online but since I enjoy it so much I don't mind buying the minis. I'd be interested in seeing the collected volume that got published since the print quality of the minis is fairly poor.

Welcome to the Dahl House is one of the funniest comics I've read in a long time. I love his style and his wit. The "crotchety aging liberal male" angle has been covered in comics many, many times but he does it well and with enough originality to not make it redundant.

I already own Bugbear. How did I end up buying a second copy? Stupidity, bad memory. This has happened to me several times before.

Eight Days Out was really enjoyable. A funny and warm travelogue of Glidden's roadtrip with her brother across the country. I'm definitely going to pick up any copies of her other comics that I come across.

Haven't read the other two but hopefully I'll get to it sooner rather then later.