You see I wrote another article this week with Luis Godoy? If not please check out Comic Yeti dot com and read that article too! What's it about? Oh just us going deep deep deep in the caves to look at comic solicits each month. We realized that covering comics released in shops every week is good for shops but to help creators, we needed to tempt you to pre-order comics. Hopefully we can entice some of you to do so with our list of our TOP 7 books of the month. Please read that article or else my new Yeti contract will become null and void. How did I not read the fine print sooner???
NEWS
My goodness! A romance book? Well creators Chip Zdarsky and Rachael Stott would love to sell you a book of gear grinding, fluid sloshing and jangling. As publisher DSTLRY (Did you figure out how to pronounce that yet? Will you teach me?) pitches this as love affair that will have major ramifications for fictional USA and Canada relations. Oh, and White House Robot Romance is the title.
CHECK in to the house sometime. DSTLRY does not say and Chip's shirtless photo is too loud.
Maverick, an imprint of Mad Cave Studios, announces In Mourning. A girl narrates the loss of her mom and the feelings that it produces. Created by Paula Cheshire and translated by Jodie Trautman. Sorry this press release did not have very much in it, but the book looks gorgeous.
Please give this interesting book a try August 26th.
Ben Winters and Leomacs new comic Benjamin is being released from Oni Press. Sci-Fi writer Benjamin J. Carp was prolific in his output of counter culture classics until he died in 1982. Now he awakes in 2025 in a burnt out motel and is trying to figure how he lives again.
Get paranoid this June 18th.
CROWFUNDING
Wunderkind Brendan Albetski brings back Maru Kiru Destroy the Moon with the new installment The Chosen One. After wrecking her enemies in volumes 1 & 2 Maru is back to blow up the moon!
The campaign has already reached its goal and you can back anytime in the next 27 days.
Visionary Norm Konyu has new project part artbook/part comic Edgar Allan- A Tale of Mystery and Intervention live now on Kickstarter. A child friendly look through the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Norm has smashed past his goal with 15 days remaining
Comedian/Sitcom Writer Abby Dento has paired with Javier Martin Caba to create the sensational comic Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games. Abby describes the book as a pair of soccer moms battling in a game of one-upmanship to the point of all out warfare.
This book needs your help to reach its goal in the next 23 days.
Rising superstar writer Wells Thompson and artist Maru Davalos embark on their Kickstarter for the comic By Appointment Only. A witch runs a magic shop while offering services to the local community. A patron comes in worried as their boyfriend has gone missing. Things are going to get out of hand!
They have had an incredible start but need help to hit their goal
Writer of this very article has found his creative life partner Jack Van Thomme and they decide to make it everyone's problem. In The Pale Moonlight is a bizarre murder mystery of superheroes stuck in a void trying to solve the brutal death of the Grand Knight. Problem is all the suspects all consider themselves the world's greatest detective. The duo plan to donate all proceeds past their goal to the American Red Cross.
If you like comics to get weird hope on board because we could use some help crossing our goal.