Here are the first rough draft pages for Smuttynose Issue 2. Hope to have it done before Halloween!

Issue 2 will be finished very soon!

It is going to be nuts. There will be various depictions of music, a glimpse into the past, more girls and drawing after drawing of the same plaid couch!

In the meantime, issue #1 is available here.

Other bits of creepy losery can be seen here.

That’s right, “Girls Don’t Poop,” the instant classic from Mario Van Buren, is now available for purchase right here!

It’s a steal at only $2! Order extras to give to your friends, parents, classmates, co-workers, bartender, mailman, grandmother, priest and/or rabbi, mayor, chiropractor, shoe shine boy, stripper, mechanic, pet, pilot, drug dealer, sports hero, and hair stylist!

…when you buy a copy of Denis St. John’s new comic Monsters & Girls: Amelia.

Only while supplies last!

Monsters & Girls: Amelia continues where Denis’ previous mini left off and tells the story of three strange relics which have been separated and which seem to possess evil powers. There is sex, gore, mystery and intrigue- and I promise you that Amelia will leave you wanting more.

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Sorry, the first IKJK/4-Square anthology, was in the MoCCA notes today on Newsarama’s Best Shots. We’re way way at the bottom, but check it out! There was also a review of Sorry on Optical Sloth a week or so back, if you didn’t see it give it a read!

Also, a shout out to Rich Tommaso and James Sturm for getting Satchel Paige into the New York Times book review this past Sunday. They got a really smart, positive review. If you haven’t seen this book yet, you’re missing out.

“Indelible,” the first CCS womens’ anthology, is now available for sale on the IKJK site. Right Here. All profits go to the Center for Cartoon Studies scholarship fund!! So when you spend $15 on this beautiful book, you’re also making a $15 donation to some very deserving, very hard-working students.

Indelible is a collection of work from the women of the Center for Cartoon Studies- Students, Staff, Faculty, Interns and Alumni. B+w interiors and 3-color screen printed covers (front and back)!! Edited by C. Frakes and Kubby.

8.5″x11″, 80 pages
$15.00

Tragic Relief #6 NOW AVAILABLE. And you can get it here for only $1. Or, if you order a copy of the Tragic Relief Xeric book through I Know Joe Kimpel, I’ll throw in #6 for free.

Look out, lovelies, I’m coming to your town! Also, if you’re interested in purchasing my new book but you want to avoid having to go somewhere and wear earplugs, that can be arranged right here.

In more ways than one. The weather was hot, the books were even hotter, and there was a fire scare in the Puck building that sent us all out into the blazing inferno for a half-hour or so. But the I Know Joe Kimpel crew had a great time this year despite (or because of) all the hawtness.

First, we sacrificed a small goat to Billy before we set off for MoCCA, to ensure a good harvest.

Then we hung up our sweet new banner.

Bob Oxman and Jeff Lok stood proudly beneath the banner, overseeing our wares.

Colleen Frakes had an impressive spread of books, and sold out of all the copies she brought with her of the new Xeric edition of Tragic Relief. Don’t worry, there are still copies to be had in the IKJK online store.

Girls Don’t Poop was the surprise sensation of the IKJK table, and Mario van Buren is working on reprinting as we speak.

After that poop mania spread through MoCCA like wildfire!

Ken Dahl graced our table with a stack of Welcome to the Dahlhouse.

Denis St. John distracted Lynda Barry so that we could snap this covert pic.

But then Emily and her mom managed to corral Lynda at her What It Is book signing and convinced her to take a legit, if geeky, photo with them. What a lovely lady she is, and meeting her was truly one of the highlights of MoCCA ‘08.

Sam Gaskin showed off his dry underarms at the Secret Acres table. His new book Fatal Faux Pas kicks ass!

Soon it was time to count our cash.

Mad billz.

In short, MoCCA ‘08 was awesome. Keep checking the blog in the coming weeks as we’ll have many new books for sale in the MoCCA aftermath.

Our posts keep disappearing and that sucks.

Ok, so what I posted was:

Colleen Frakes’ Xeric-powered edition of Tragic Relief is now for sale at the IKJK Store! Check it out!

Yeah there was lots more blah-de-bla and hilarity, but I don’t feel like typing it all again.