Jen's latest book! As seen in the hippest alternative newspapers around the country, it's Jen Sorensen's award-winning cartoon "Slowpoke," lovingly gathered in this plump second volume. Let Mr. Perkins, Little Gus, and Drooly Julie escort you on a grand tour of the New American Century, exposing the lunacy of our leaders and the chaos of our cornball culture. Be forewarned: This book is a bulging cornucopia of perversion and subversion, with big laffs to boot. Chronicles the years from September 11 to just before the 2004 election.

112 pages, $12.95 US ($15.95 for international orders)

Slowpoke: Cafe Pompous is the Xeric Award-winning collection of the first two years of Jen Sorensen's weekly alternative newspaper strip. 64 pages long and filled with gags, this book takes on the political as well as the completely ludicrous in one fell swoop. Witness Drooly Julie as she gets cryogenically frozen by evil scientists attempting to harness her libido-power, meet pontificating CEOs and puffed-up politicians, attend an Ennui Festival with Little Gus. Fine absurdist humor for cartoon connoisseurs.

64 pages, $5.95 US ($8.95 for international orders)

Before there was the weekly strip, there was the comic book. Slowpoke Comix #1 contains a variety of humorous shorts with a bit of surrealism thrown in for good measure. Also includes Droolie Julie's first appearance, in an eight-page story in which she hunts down and furiously licks a stubbly heavy-metal guitarist.

24 pages, $3.50 US ($4.50 for international orders)