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Funny girl Jen Sorensen, previously known for her short stories featured in Action Girl Comics, made her solo debut with this surreal and highly entertaining work.

Sorensen opens her book with several amusing shorts, posing her characters — Minnie, Little Gus, and the pointy-headed Mr. Perkins — in a variety of bizarre situations. The hilarious closing story, "Drooly Julie on the Prowl," explores what happens when the female libido goes haywire, as Julie slyly pursues and eventually gets her paws on a handsome headbanger.

Fans of Sorensen's altweekly strip won't want to miss the original comic book where it all began.

Slowpoke Comix #1

Slowpoke: Café Pompous

Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers

About the Cartoonist: A Xeric Grant winner, Kimberly Yale Award nominee for Best New Talent, and Association of Alternative Newspapers award-winner, Jen Sorensen is rapidly becoming a prominent voice in the altweekly world. She is the writer and artist behind Slowpoke, a cartoon which appears in alternative newspapers around the country, as well as in the nationally-distributed Funny Times, Ms. Magazine, Z Magazine, and Missouri Review literary journal.

In 2001, Sorensen published a grant-funded collection of the first two years of Slowpoke strips, entitled Slowpoke: Café Pompous. Slowpoke was recently featured in Ted Rall’s popular anthology, Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists. Sorensen’s work is also highlighted in Trina Robbins’ book, The Great Women Cartoonists.

Jen Sorensen was a featured speaker at the first annual ACLU membership conference in Washington, D.C. in 2003. In addition to Slowpoke, Jen does freelance illustration for such magazines as Nickelodeon, National Geographic Kids, and Legal Affairs.

Images, characters and likenesses © and TM Jen Sorensen