An eclectic mix of underground comics and art, showcases work from established artists such as Judith Brody, Mark Landman, Peter Kuper, and Sue Coe as well as several talented newcomers, in the latest volume of the well-respected counterculture series. Original.

Long a superstar in his native Italy, Lorenzo Mattotti has made sporadicincursions into the U.S. via appearances in RAW magazine, the classicFires graphic novel, and the more recent, 2003 Eisner-winning Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adaptation from NBM. (Not to mention regular gigs inThe New Yorker.) All of these previous works have showcased hisfull-color painter style, but Chimera, with its intricate,hyper-expressive swirls of crisp line work, shows that Mattotti's genius isbound by no single technique. A wordless fantasia of birth, death, gods,monsters, and humans, Chimera is the most astonishing visual narrativeyou'll see all year. "A beautiful stream-of-consciousness bit of fantasy... any fan of greatcartooning owes it to themselves to seek out this comic." –Sequart

A high-rise apartment building in an unnamed European city. Its inhabitantscome and go, meet each other, talk, dream, regret, hope... in short, live. Aghostly, shape-shifting anthropomorphic white rabbit roams from apartment toapartment, surveying and keeping track of all this humanity... and at the end ofevery night, he floats down to the basement where he delivers his report to the"great dark one." Lushly delineated in penciled sepia halftones, this debut"Ignatz" by Gabriella Giandelli offers a hauntingly unique vision and atantalizingly open-ended beginning to an ongoing series.

This new ongoing series from the UK-based cartoonist Matt Broersma begins aHunter S. Thompson-ishly inten³e and atmospheric tale ofintrigue, mystery and interlocking lives. The first issue follows Marco Clay,sometime bartender, petty criminal and insurance company accountant, as he walksa fine line between necessity and the Texas Highway Patrol. Fleeing to MexicoCity, Clay may avoid the cops, but will he fall into the clutches of adrug-runner with a taste for floral-print shirts? This first self-containedinstallment, part of a larger jigsaw, ranges from the highs of a caffeine rushto the depths of the human soul.