Consider Buying From SLG Today



SLG, one of the veterans of the indie comics market as currently constituted, announced a few days ago they're having a tax sale through today with checkout coupon "taxtime09." SLG is one of the few companies of its size to announce they've made business changes because of the economy, and head honcho Dan Vado has been forthright about the troubled waters and challenges SLG faces during this period of time. So if there's something you want from there, now may be a good time to go out and get it in any number of ways.

If you're not all that familiar with SLG, or need reminding here are some suggestions.

1) they publish Evan Dorkin, and whether you get his stuff in comic book or collected form, it's all worth having.

2) they've published James Turner (I'm not sure if he's currently doing anything) a funny cartoonist with a unique approach to visual representation that changes comic to comic. He's like some cartoonist that time-traveled from the early indy-comic 1980s, a period in which I think he would have had a much easier time finding an audience. I liked his series Rex Libris (top), but a better try-it one-shot might be the graphic novel Nil. His maps might make a nice gift for those that are into posters and prints.

3) the cartoonist Derf's Punk Rock and Trailer Parks was under-read last year and is an endearing coming-of-age story of the kind that filmmakers tend to follow their hit gross-out comedy by making.

4) enough people liked the Phil Elliott-drawn Contraband to the point that it's back on my reading pile and makes me think it may also have been under-read. It was written by Thomas J. Behe.

5) the illustrator Sonny Liew's art on Wonderland was fairly gorgeous, and it seemed like people mostly forgot about this series as it progressed.

I feel these are reminders more than they are suggestions; I wouldn't expect anyone to come to such a sale cold. There are of course many, many other books from the company that have their fans and adherents -- Skaggy the Lost, for instance. It could be worth poking around.
 
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