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Yellow Baby #1
By Jed Alexander. 32pgs, 8" x 8", $3.95.
Issue 1 - July 2003. ISBN: 1-891867-54-7.

Drawn in his appealing clear line style, each issue of this thrice-annual ongoing series features the serialized "Turtle, turtle" story of an island off the coast of Mexico believed to be a giant living turtle by its inhabitants. "Turtle, turtle" is told from the point of view of Cesar, who, born and raised in the U.S of mixed parents, spends one long summer in Mexico with his grandmother, then returns, later, as an adult. Not exactly a coming of age story, "Turtle, turtle" explores ideas of racial, social, and global identity. Yellow Baby also features stories that are contrastingly very funny, very sad, and very odd, all rendered in a range of methods and styles, while still remaining unmistakably Jed's.

Issue #1, by Jed Alexander, Two Colors, Mature Readers, 32 pages, 8" x 8", $3.95; ISBN 1-891867-54-7.

Yellow Baby #1 sample rough pages

Yellow Baby #1

Jed Alexander lives in Davis California with his girlfriend Regina and her two dogs. He's written and done illustration for Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man Magazine, and has done covers for the free newspapers The Sacramento News and Review and Outword. His first published comics work, an earlier, more primitive version of "Turtle, turtle," appeared in issue #5 of the anthology Meathaus, which, coincidentally, is the same anthology that premiered the works of Alternative Comics artists Tomer Hanuka and Thomas Herpich.