Comic Book Dreams, Vol. 1

An entertaining look at the comic book publishing industry from the birth of direct sales to the present day. Three writers, 15 years, over 90,000 words of commentary, reviews, interviews and insight. Featuring new and reprinted work by Bruce Canwell, author of Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet, and Marvel Comics writer Tom Field, including never before published interviews with Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Gary Groth, Steve Bissette and others. $5.00

Persephone's Torch by Douglas Thornsjo

A world of mystery and dreams... a journey of transformations... a tale of love and aspiration set amidst the powder and dust of '30s theater...

$4.50. Read a sample chapter online.

Stories by Douglas Thornsjo

13 mysterious and unusual tales from the author of PERSEPHONE'S TORCH, featuring Pushcart Prize nominee "The Death's-Head Man"

$4.50. Download free demo containing one complete story, plus selected excerpts & ordering info.

You see him every week on the net... Now you can follow up on all the earliest adventures of Quirk, Star Reject of The Galaxy and his pals Carpy, Smith and Sludge in these original comic books from the early '80s.

QUIRK is a magazine-sized black and white comic book. Each issue is $1.50 plus postage ($3.50 for total order regardless of quantity). Click here for ordering info.

Issue #1, "Island in The Sky," is 25 pages.

Issue #2, "The Humor Agency" is 32 pages.

  Of issue #2 (pictured here), cat yronwode said, "reads as well as any newsstand comic and better than Jim Starlin's current work for Epic... the writing goes a good deal deeper than a parody of detective genre fiction as it delves into the questions of sorrow and happiness, of the enforcibility of states of mind, and, yes, love."