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Humans! Beware the three-toed tread of All Flee! Run! As ancient jokes long thought dead are brought back from the depths to terrorize comic-reading kind once more! Try to hide! From the monsters begat from a crazed laboratory experiment by Doctors Simon Gane and Gavin Burrows, unleashed upon innocent comic-reading kind!
32-pages of monster-sized city-trampling, wrapped up in a cool comic-sized format!

Arnie the young anarchist bomber, The right-on kids and the ever popular Subvert Man smash the state, blow themselves up, and do a zine. Political comics in a crisp and original style that take the piss out of society…
We mean it, Man…
Co-published by Wow Cool and Slab-O-Concrete.
24 page magazine
with 2-color covers.

The adventures of Arnie the Anarchist continue. Also, Simon’s earlier Paris-located comic, “Les Peintres Maudits”. Not for sale to the rich or right wing.
32 page comic
with full-color covers.

Les Peintres Maudits”, Scrumpy & Smiles (that’s them on the cover), The Shoe Sole Serenade (with Ian Lynam-a 15-page American Blues excursion), and no Arnie.
36 page comic
with full-color covers.

When a casino manager disappears with fifty grand, the ex-Secret Service man on his trail soon finds himself entangled in a child kidnapping case. A bullet-ridden tale of danger, sudden death, treachery, guns, gangsters, and big explosions then unfolds. In the middle of this carnage, a stony-cold figure stands… Also includes “Underworld”, the gritty story of a gangster’s final revenge.
72 page paperback
Black & White | Color Covers

Newave! is a hardcover 892 page monster collection of 80’s minicomix. Art by Marc Arsenault (The Girl From Mars), Sam Henderson (The F Hat), Ion, Wayno and scores of others. From Fantagraphics Books.
From Publishers Weekly
In his introduction to this fascinating treasure trove of an anthology, Dower describes drawing, folding, and stapling his first minicomic back in 1982. Many others were doing the same and their combined efforts added up to a do-it-yourself scene in which obsessed nutballs drew like crazy and made trips to the copy shops to get their work out there before the Web. In addition to work by greats like Artie Romero, Rick Geary, and Mary Fleener, and 50 or so others, the book serves as the history of a movement. The Newave Manifesto, written by Clay Geerdes in 1983 starts things off, and introductions and interviews preceding each creator’s work puts it in context, while the list of artist Web sites at the end gives readers much more to discover. Some highlights include Dada Gumbo, in which a series of artists riff on the idea of dada; the 1993 comix ode to Louise Brooks by Molly Keily, whose black-and-white drawings offer seductive closeups of the actress’s iconic eyes and hairstyle; and Brad Foster’s Eternal Conflict, in which a man tries to get through dinner in clear line drawings that coolly present his absurdist difficulties.

Troubled ranting and scratching. With help from Steven Cerio, Sam Henderson, Al Columbia and Mark Sunshine. It all seems to make some sort of strange commentary on life, revolution and the decay of modern society… or something. The most pages of comics by Marc that has been seen so far.

ZOO DISTRICT #7: Adventures in Excitement
A new Wow Cool book! This one is all artwork and comics by Marc Arsenault (with a wee bit of help from Paul Komoda, Jason Martin and Brigham Martin), some of it reprinted from anthologies (Monster, Paper Rodeo), some of it previously unpublished and some of it brand new. Also: A strip about Gary Groth and the Kree-Skrull Wars that originally appeared in Roarin’ Rick Veitch’s Rare Bit Fiends.
5½ × 8½”, 28 pages, full-color covers. Published by Wow Cool, 2008.

Juliet Morrow is an American art student who’s living the dream: studying and honing her craft in Paris. Of course, most days, the dream seems like a nightmare. Her instructor is an overbearing jerk. She’s broke most of the time. And the only way she can afford to stay in school is to take on annoying assignments such as painting portraits for snooty Europeans. But one of those portraits sessions proves to be a turning point, as Juliet meets Deborah, a British girl visiting Paris with her ever-present and snobbish aunt.

Deborah and Juliet are two young women searching for freedom in Paris but finding themselves constrained by the old ways and old values. A chance meeting and the Winged Victory bring them together while their friends and family seek to drive them apart.

It’s the morning after the night before and Juliet struggles to finish her portrait of her muse while Gerard pays an unwelcome visit. Debs invites Juliet to the ball but the poverty stricken art student has nothing to wear. Who will play fairy godmother to our heroines?

With Debs enduring the shooting season in England and Juliet trapped in small town America the would-be lovers couldn’t be further apart. When Debs makes a shocking discovery and Juliet sells one of her new paintings they are both thrown from their narrow existences and out into the world.

Juliet is a starving American art student scraping a living from painting portraits of society girls visiting Paris. Debs is on her first trip to the city but can’t experience the real things because of her overprotective aunt. A chance meeting and the Winged Victory bring them together while their friends and family seek to drive them apart.

Lip-splitting fun from the punkest cartoonist on the planet. This hefty tome collects Simon Gane’s comics and artwork from the global punk underground. Featuring self-destructive Arnie the Anarchist; low-grade alcohol guzzling Subvertman; obligatory…
160 page paperback
Black & White | Color Covers

The Andy’s Chair #3 tour zine. Bad bus rides, failed train hoppings, weird King Cat Comics ripoffs. Drawn on Chicago streetcorners while drunk. Features random scribbles by Iggy Scam, Al Columbia and Sam Henderson.

Art by Simon Gane. Story by Ian Lynam and Kim Fern. It all begins here. Boy misses girl. Girl ignores boy.
24 page digest.
Published by Migraine.

A stash of copies from the 2nd-4th??? printings have been located by Simon and are now available to you! Slightly different sizes and covers… same content. Art by Simon Gane. Story by Ian Lynam and Kim Fern.
28 page digest

Boy meets girl… almost. The intertwining lives of two young punks who can’t seem to get their acts together. In three parts. Written by Ian Lynam and Kim Fern and illustrated with beautifully intricate cityscapes and desperate characters by Arnie artist Simon Gane.
36 page black and white digest

“A cryptic pilgrimage to the nucleus of joy”
“Steven Cerio is the artist that can best be described as suffering dark influences while still being carried by his pregnant mother who unfortunately witnessed a runaway truck full of raw calamari run through the wall of a toothpick factory.” - Robert Williams
Wonderful comic by the author of Steven Cerio’s ABC Book: A Drug Primer and art genius behind many of The Residents videos.

Written by Si Spencer; Art by Simon Gane and Cameron Stewart; Cover by Sean Phillips
Tabloid darling Morrison “Moz” Shepherd used to live the wild life. Now he saves lives, by cracking the U.K.’s most dangerous occult crimes. Magic. Pop. London.
From Vertigo | 128pg. | Color | Softcover