Poopsheet Foundation

This 2009 Xeric Grant winner clocks in at 84 pages for $9.95 and more information can be found at www.nathanschreiber.com or www.poweroutcomic.com. This is a really nice looking product, with visuals that feel like Nate Powell (Tiny Giants, Swallow Me Whole) and his sketchy style, blended with the refined characteristics and soft-edged figure work of someone like Adrian Tomine. The blue tones running throughout the book provide a suitably somber mood for this coming-of-age story. We find our...

Hello!
My new comic is now back from the printers and on sale at my website. It's £3 with free postage in the UK and Europe, please add £1 postage to the rest of the world. It's 36 pages with colour covers.

Here's the cover and here's the first two pages.

cheers
rob

Robert Sergel's work feels like a cross between the finely-rendered naturalism and quotidian observations of Jonathan Bennett and the stark, bold style and deadpan storytelling of John Hankiewicz. Like Hankiewicz, Sergel's comics are all about panel-to-panel rhythm and the use of still, static imagery to create an emotional charge. Take "Flying Squirrel", for example. The first page of the strip introduces to a long-shot view of a dead squirrel on the highway, then an image of a bird of...

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If you can imagine a mainstreamy blend of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen coupled with DC Comics’ recent Wednesday Comics project helmed by Editor Mark Chiarello, you’d be getting close to the visual production wonder of Pterodactyl Hunters. It’s a 36 page comic on newsprint that’s made to look like a faux newspaper edition of The Sun from an alternate reality New York, circa 1904. The “front page” is brilliant; it combines the perfect...