Bundled Extra: Uncivilized Announces Spring 2015 Line-Up

The well-regarded boutique publisher Uncivilized Books announced its Spring 2015 publishing slate earlier today via a press release distributed by marketing coordinator Alec Berry. The release notes that the company is still offering a subscription plan, and is also making their newly-announced books available for pre-orders on an individual basis (1, 2, 3.

The books announced are:

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* Borb, Jason Little, 9781941250020, $19.95.

Publisher's Description Of Project: Borb is a collection of connecting daily comic strips from cartoonist Jason Little. About a severely alcoholic homeless man, Little’s story draws upon the long and complex tradition of the comic strip slapstick vagabond, and, concurrently, depicts the real horrors specific to present-day urban homelessness. At once hilarious and horrifying, Borb challenges the reader with every panel.

Publisher's Description Of Creator: Jason Little was born in 1970 and raised in Binghamton, New York. He studied photography at Oberlin College, and now resides in Brooklyn with writer Myla Goldberg and their daughter Zelie Goldberg-Little. He has been drawing cartoons since he was a child. In addition to Shutterbug Follies and Motel Art Improvement Service, he’s also written and illustrated the Xeric Award-winning Jack's Luck Runs Out, as well as a number of short works for various cartoon anthologies.

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* Robot Investigator, Vincent Stall, 9781941250044, $19.95

Publisher's Description Of Project: Robot Investigator follows a lonely robot to a mysterious planet, much like Earth, that it explores and questions. Both sweet and melancholy, it’s arguably cartoonist and designer Vincent Stall’s masterpiece, showcasing his constant interest in environment and texture through the eyes of something innocent. The book also includes a 16-page "Robot Parts" catalog designed by Stall.

Publisher's Description Of Creator: Vincent Stall is an artist, cartoonist and designer. Since 1999, he's run Puny, the renowned animation and design agency responsible for, among many other things, The Venture Brothers, and animated sequences on Yo Gabba Gabba!. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and daughter.

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* True Swamp: Book 2, Jon Lewis, 9780988901490, $19.95

Publisher's Description Of Project: The best of Jon Lewis’s seminal comic book series, True Swamp, collected for the first time! True Swamp: Book 2 continues the misadventures of Lenny the Frog, yet expands Lewis’s strange vision of the swamp to include the likes of inventor marmots, sculptors of social interaction, collectors of human relics and the swamp’s one true religion. The stories collected here were awarded best of the year by Time Magazine in 2000.

Publisher's Description Of Creator: Jon Lewis began True Swamp in 1992. It continues today. Other cartoon works include Ghost Ship, Spectacles and Klagen. He's also written comics for DC, Dark Horse Comics and Kodansha. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the cartoonist Karen Sneider.

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It looks like a fine season, and I'm glad to see one of the more interesting publishers in comics grow into their seasons as they go along.

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