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Robot 6’s Reviewer Michael May recommends Erik T. Johnson’s The Outliers #1 in his Adventureblog! “The comic is on sale this week (published by Alternative Comics) and I highly recommend it.”

Erik T. Johnson’s The Outliers #1 is a Pick of The Week on Robot 6! Outliers #1 “As a big fan of Alternative Comics when it was run by founder Jeff Mason, I’m reassured by Outliers that the company is in safe hands with new publisher Marc Arsenault. I’ve had a chance to read an advance copy…

Check out the new Last Gasp comics & graphic novels catalog featuring Failure and several other Alternative Comics titles (along with some great stuff from other publishers too).

SUBMISSION: Magic Whistle #13 by Sam Henderson – an SPX debut Sam Henderson’s funny book celebrates it’s 20th anniversary by returning to bi-annual publication! Stories this issue include ‘Three Little Fishies’, ‘The Half Plus Seven Rule’ and ‘The Origin of Dirty Danny!’ Added to Sam’s regular hilarity are guest-artists Lizz Hickey and David Goldin. Alternative…

Interview With Sam Henderson About Magic Whistle and Self-Publishing “Hey we have a special treat for you today. Coming to us from our friends at Alternative Comics is an excerpt of an interview done with Sam Henderson. Check it out and be sure to stop by their site to check out Sam’s titles and the…

Broken Frontier covers Magic Whistle’s 20th Anniversary. “Sam Henderson will be celebrating 20 years of his one-man humor anthology Magic Whistle this year with the release of three books and the debut of a new MagicWhistle.com website. Alternative Comics invites you to enjoy an early look at all of them. Sam has also created a…

Joel Orff’s Strum and Drang #1 from 1993 is now available in a digital edition on Kindle. “Alternative Comics presents the digitally re-mastered edition of Joel Orff’s 1993 self-published Strum And Drang #1. In his signature dark and dreamy style, Orff delivers tender stories of self-realization from the antics of childhood memories to the misremembered…

Optical Sloth Review of Elaine Will’s Look Straight Ahead “Somewhere out there is a human with no attention span who started reading this and gave up on it because they assumed that it would end up being another in a long line of graphic novels about a loser trying to get together with the girl of…

Review of Karl Stevens’s Failure by Jason Sacks “Karl Stevens’ Failure is a real success. Collecting about 150 freeflowing strips that Stevens created for the Boston Phoenix, Failure is a wonderful portrait of middle-class, post-college, kid-free urban dwellers. Some of the strips make fun of Stevens’s or his friends’ self-absorption, alcoholism, or annoying obliviousness. Others are more observational, simply reporting his…

Alternative Comics has four books on ComiXology today: Karl Stevens’ The Lodger, Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle #9 and Joel Orff’s Waterwise and Strum and Drang: Great Moments in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Check them out here!