{a COFFEE+DUMPLING+KOMIKS mini}

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Collected pages centered on the Slovak word for “slaughter” (zabijacka).  Rabbit finds cigarette boxes in a field, rakes leaves with neighborhood kids, attends slaughter of half-bull, and confronts aggressive drinking culture while investigating history & culture of Eastern Slovakia.

“Quite a cultured accomplishment and something that makes you feel good about yourself after you read it.” — Thirteen Minutes (review)

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{a COFFEE+DUMPLING+KOMIKS mini}

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Eight portraits & hagiographical comics about early Christian martyrs,  drawn from the outer wings of an obscure late-gothic altar to Saint Anna in Eastern Slovakia.

Includes the following saints: 

Barbora ~ Apolonia ~ Opatka Otilia ~ Katarina Alexandriska ~ Dorotea ~ Agnesa Rimska ~ Ursula (& Cordula) ~ Margita Antiochiska

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FEATURES: Mimi’s Doughnuts newspaper strips, episodes #334-370
Forests get clearcut, Shayna plants a garden, Joey crashes his bike, and some famous chef dude wants to make a reality TV show at the shop…

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Super-Value 5-Pack: Share the magic of Cyclops Vomit with your friends!  5 copies!  $10 (+$0.75 shipping)  

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[Also @ Trees and Hills Distro]

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ABOUT: A 2009 24 hour comic about health and healthcare features stories about allergies, broken fingers, heart transplants, kidney removals, salad greens, acne, skateboards, and more.

“Despite the comic’s animated, congenial delivery in cartoon streamlining, this is one sobering anthology of wellbeing interruptus, of malady and misfortune made geometrically more dire through incompetence, corporate malfeasance, bureaucratic indifference and simple if pandemic civic apathy.” — Rich Kreiner, The Comics Journal

“It’s a great pile of stories that wasn’t hurt a bit by the 24 hour time limit.  Check it out, anybody who has ever been sick can relate to some of the nonsense in this volume.” — Optical Sloth

Also available at: Trees and Hills Distro

(5.5″x8.5″ ~ 204 pages ~ b&w w/ color cover)
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Also available at: Trees and Hills Distro

ABOUT: Graphic novel account of 2009 Comics Delegation to northern Nicaragua.

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“The book reaches its emotional and thematic heights with the actual workshops. Bennett is at his most animated, antsy and assured and his drawing reflects as much. His faith in comics and cartooning is abiding and infectious… he’s a proselytizer all right, an apostle, and over the course of the trip you’ll find his is a belief honestly come by. You’d wish it for all fellow travelers.” – Rich Kreiner, The Comics Journal

“This is an engrossing work…  This is the kind of thing that should be taught in schools to show what we’re capable of as a race if we just stop to listen to what the other side is saying.” — Optical Sloth

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Here are some videos of Marek introducing & reading from the book in Concord, NH:
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ABOUT: 
Breakfast at Mimi’s collects the first three years of Marek Bennett’s Mimi’s Doughnuts comic strips, appealing to readers of all ages with quirky, bittersweet stories from the lives and imaginations of an entire family of characters.

“I was completely blown away… if this can win over an old curmudgeon like me it can win over anybody.” – Optical Sloth

“It’s rare to find mainstream newspaper comic strips with as much emotional honesty as Marek Bennett’s ‘Breakfast at Mimi’s’…” — Greg Cook, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research

“From book’s start to finish, Bennett’s talent as a cartoonist and his diligence as student of the medium are flagrant. His characters (at least the kids) are loose, flexible and lively cartoon embodiments. Staging, backgrounds and scenes are accomplished and practical. Bennett is not afraid to stretch to incorporate the special special effects available to comic strips and he has the professional chops to make them function properly.” — Rich Kreiner, The Comics Journal

(8.5″x11″ ~ 80 pages ~ b&w w/ color cover)

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Graphic novel collection of Marek’s first three 24 Hour Comics, featuring the following side-splitting head-spinning classics:

1. DOG BLESS AMERICA = A good old dog returns to active spy duty, with disastrous results…
2. CUPPY & THE GANG GO ON A DATE = The gang’s all here, in a magical world of infinite possibilities!  But… what’s with all the fruit?
3. THE MAKING OF…. = The 24 Hour Comic that draws itself drawing itself!

“Its immediacy and intimacy are guileless, engaging and rewarding.” – Rich Kreiner, The Comics Journal