Before Image, before his superhero work, JIM VALENTINO was known as one of the brightest practitioners of auto-bio alternative comix! Collected for the first time in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER are the critically acclaimed, award winning stories from VALE...

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Story TED McKEEVER art & cover TED McKEEVER Spud, a self-proclaimed urban rebel, finds that when he inadvertently becomes involved in a political nightmare of power and corruption, he's going to need a lot more than half a can of spray-paint a...

TAGS: ted mckeever, political nightmare, urban rebel, unpublished art, spray paint, graphic novels

You've probably never heard of the Churamane, have you? They were a particularly lazy and not terribly bright species that lived a long time ago and vanished without a trace. This story follows them from the time they get invited aboard Noah's Ark...

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A young boy named Sam loves scary movies, especially the ones with Dracula! This year, instead of writing to Santa for Christmas, Sam writes to Dracula, asking the vampire king if he can become a real vampire for Halloween! Sam is in for a surpris...

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story MARK EVANIER art & cover WILL MEUGNIOT MARK EVANIER and WILL MEUGNIOT 's DNAGENTS may well have been the prototype for today's comic book industry. Not only was it released through one of the first independent publishers, not only was it...

TAGS: comic book industry, animation producer, genetic manipulation, independent publishers, mark evanier, television writer

Written by Corinna Sara Bechko Art and cover by Gabriel Hardman When Anna travels deep within the Florida Everglades to attend her lover's funeral, she finds herself in an eerie small town where death is but a horrible beginning! In an attempt to ...

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Story and art by TED MCKEEVER Eddy Current is insane. At least that's what the world deems him to be. The very same world he intends to save. A window of opportunity opens, literally, allowing our hero to escape the asylum he calls home. Bed-check...

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story TED McKEEVER art & cover TED McKEEVER METROPoL is an epic story of the fight between angels and demons, but set in a modern industrial landscape. An apocalyptic work in which non-entity Jasper Notochord becomes involved in an unbelievabl...

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story WAYNE CHINSANG art & cover ERIK ROSE The Boston Strangler and the Zodiac Killer are alive and well, living amongst the old and dying of The Shady Lane Retirement Center. Surrounded by bingo tournaments and tea times, these two notorious ...

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story VICENTE 'VINNY' NAVARRETE art & cover VICENTE 'VINNY' NAVARRETE Told in a delightful rhyming narrative, Kite Day is a charming all-ages children's book that takes the reader on a fanciful journey through the imagination of a spirited, yo...

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