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August 2nd, 2010
Our good friends MK Reed and Jonathan Hill have turned their story Americus from Papercutter #7 into a 200 page graphic novel. It follows the life of young Neil Barton as he must fight for to save his favorite book from being banned at his small town's public library. Americus will be published by First Second Books in the Fall of 2011. But in an effort to share it with more people, they will be serializing it online as part of First Second's To Be Continued webcomics project. The first chapter is up now with new pages coming every Monday-Wednesday-Friday. Check it out, it's really something special.
www.SaveApathea.com
April 30th, 2010
This month we welcome back Clutch McBastard with the first new full sized issue of his zine Clutch in over four years. It's a 320 page giant but is sadly the last one. But fear not Clutch fans, a new Clutch/Invincible Summer split is in the works for this summer.
Also as you can see to the left, there is a new issue of Papercutter too. This issue is a strong one with a cover story by bad-ass artist Nate Powell and his fiance Rachel Bormann. The title of their comic is The Uncomfortable Gaze of Carlos Santana which really says it all. Joey Sayers provides a gem of a story that everyone is talking about. You'll never look at Garfield the same way. And Mark Campos and Dalton Webb team up to provide another chapter to their Pogo inspired series of tales about community of animals with a little magic thrown in. As always, Nate Beaty makes everything look better with his stellar endpage art.
May 1st is Free Comic Book Day and again this year we've teamed up with Sparkplug and Teenage Dinosaur to bring you a free anthology of Portland cartoonists. This year's book is call Dope Flounder and is available at select comic book stores across the country. Click here for more info or buy it for a penny from Sparkplug.
February 9th, 2010
A belated welcome to 2010. We have a lot of exciting plans for the coming year and are looking forward to creating and reading a ton of great comics. We've already kicked things off we a new printing of last year's Invincible Summer split zine. This version features a lovely green ink job and 50% fewer typos. Nicole is hard at work on her new graphic novel, so this will be a nice supplement until she's finished.
Also the second of our co-publishing projects with Sparkplug Comic Books has arrived. Whirlwind Wonderland is the first book from bay area cartoonist Rina Ayuyang. It's a collection of interrelated short stories about her family and her hellish commute to work. It's a real gem of a book. Check it out.
New issues of Papercutter are in the works and several fun publications are just about ready to go to press. Check back soon for more updates.
September 29th, 2009
Congratulations to Damien Jay for winning this year's Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story for "Willy" from Papercutter #10. The award was given out at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland and was presented by Jeffrey Brown.
September 17th, 2009
As Fall quickly approaches, it's time for a new issue of Papercutter. Issue eleven has just arrived and features our longest story yet. A 26 page heartbreaker by zine queen Amy Adoyzie (Columnist for Razorcake Magazine) and future superstar Jon Sukarangsan (Hurricane Season). Stuck in a crappy dishwashing job with student loans and a lousy new boyfriend, Lulu struggles to find a way out of her quarter-life malaise. Back up stories by Dustin Harbin and Lisa Eisenberg expand of the theme of awful jobs as they write about toiling away as a newspaper reporter and a middle school teacher respectively. Nate Beaty pulls the issue together with his wonderful endpages.
Also new to the Tugboat catalog is the first of three upcoming books co-published by our friends at Sparkplug Comic Books. Neptune is the debut graphic novel by Aron Nels Steinke. It's a wonderful all-ages story about fifth grader Erika and her little brother Patrick. It's hard to talk about the book without giving away it's surprises but it's really fun read and we think you'll like it.
The Small Press Expo is coming up soon and with it the Ignatz Awards. This year Tugboat is happy to announce that Damien Jay's story "Willy" from Papercutter #10 is up for Outstanding Story and Hellen Jo as featured in Papercutter #9 is up for Promising New Talent. Good luck to both these incredible artists.
