| Independent publishing house Alternative Comics will have the largest season of its 22 year history this fall, beginning with the September release of a trio of titles from Brooklyn’s Hang Dai Studios. Alternative Comics has twelve books scheduled from August 2015 through March 2016. This will mark their first season to include books from the imprints Hang Dai Editions, Floating World Comics and Revival House Press—who joined Alternative Comics along with Study Group Comics and Hic and Hoc Publications in February of this year. The season also marks the publisher’s second with Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, part of the Perseus Group, as its distributor.
Dean Haspiel and Tom Hart continue their long relationship with Alternative Comics with a pair of largely slice of life comics; but, this is a year of mainly fresh faces. Kevin Hooyman, Gregory Benton, Dylan Horrocks, Mardou, Anna Ehrlemark, Eric Haven and Jon Allen are all new to Alternative Comics. The Alternative Comics house anthology returns with 200 pages of the top comic artists of the moment in Alternative Comics Are Dead, fronted by a stunning Hellen Jo cover. This fall also sees the release of Schmuck, written by the late Seth Kushner and illustrated by a gang of 22 artists.
Alternative Comics still issues the old-fashioned stapled variety of comics including three original titles this fall: Fedor by Patt Kelley (Hic & Hoc); The Yankee by Jason Leivian and Ian MacEwan (Floating World); and, Titan #2 by François Vigneault (Study Group). |
