Isle Of Elsi

Middle grade fantasy adventure comics featuring dragons, wizards, talking wolves and lots of silly wordplay!

This second collection of Alec Longstreth's award-winning, Eisner-nominated webcomic Isle of Elsi reprints stories four through six. First, in "Sally Sanders in The Egalliv Examiner" Sally helps her town band together to save Nogard the Dragon from a mysterious stranger. Next, in "Liz Tekcar in The Contested Contest" the villagers compete to decorate the newly rebuilt theater. Last, in "Randy Remarf in The Door Dilemma" Randy builds a door unlike any the town has ever seen, and his dad doesn't like it! These lighthearted fantasy adventure stories feature dragons, wizards, talking wolves and lots of silly wordplay!

As night falls, another action-packed day at summer camp draws to a close. Campers sing and play on their way to their tents, settle in for story time, and finally listen to the long, sweet notes of Taps. Lights out! Time for bed.

Basewood is the story of an amnesiac young man trying to remember his mysterious past. Along the way he meets an old hermit who lives in a treehouse with his loyal dog, a young woman who fights for what she believes and a giant wolf-dragon who threatens their survival.

"Issue #1 collects the first 36 pages of Sally Sanders in The Egalliv Examiner. After a dragon attacks her village, Sally Sanders helps the Drab family start a newspaper and immediately gets to work as their first investigative reporter! Repairs to the town’s buildings are stalled, there is a stranger in town, and Sally’s best friend Rex is acting very strangely... In this issue Sally begins snooping around to try and solve these mysteries!"--Birdcage Bottom Books website.

Winner of Prism Comics first annual Queer Press Grant, SHIRTLIFTER is a series of queer-themed short fiction comics from STICKY artist Steve MacIsaac. This first issue features the self-contained story "Unmade Beds." Set amidst the gay expatriate culture of Tokyo, the comic is a quiet and lyrical examination of cross-cultural adjustment and sexual parity. This new edition features re-inked, and in some cases redrawn, artwork and 8 pages of bonus material including alternate pages, sketches, and a feature on the evolution of a comics panel from inspiration to completion. 52 pages, color.

In order to save his ailing grandfather from a curse, boy inventor Walker Bean must return an accursed pearl skull to the witches who created it, and face pirates, magical machines, and deadly peril along the way.

The first of its kind, this Handbook provides an in-depth overview of all current issues and trends in experimental syntax.