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Alternative Comics: October 2002 books announced

Gainesville, Florida, June 16, 2002:

Alternative Comics announces their October 2002 schedule to release three new books: Rubber Necker #2, Bipolar #3, and Bogus Dead. Alternative Comics will also re-release Bipolar #2.

Rubber Necker #2
Tapped by the Eisner Awards for "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition," Nick Bertozzi unleashes the second issue of his critically acclaimed on-going series. This issue contains "Drop Ceiling Chapter 2": with a fistfight, a painter, teddy bears, and what's with the corn? "Parfum": a man, a scent, an obsession. "That Won't Help": four pages of wise advice to young men trying to make up with their girl. "There Was Something I Wanted to Tell You": an experimental comic guest-written by Tim Hall. Get on board and get wrapped up in the world of one of AmericaÕs most exciting young cartoonists!
[By Nick Bertozzi, Mature Readers, 32 pages, partial color interiors, full color covers; $3.50US. ISBN: 1-891867-23-7. The cover art is available on-line at: http://www.indyworld.com/pics/rubbernecker2.tif in TIFF format or at: http://www.indyworld.com/pics/rubbernecker2.jpg in JPEG format]

Bipolar #3
"Each edition has conducted readers on an excursion through curious enviroments, full of sights that conjoin the common and the disorienting and of situations that are at once both ordinary and unaccountable." -The Comics Journal.
This issue in two parts: Part One: "Pizzeria Kamikaze" continues: suicide casualties Mordi and Ari, embark on a journey to find Mordi's lost love in their unique after life, a place prohibited only by suicide casualties. On their way they bump into suicide bombers, a girl who has a big secret and a crazy guy who lost his cat. Part Two: "Telekinetic": ever felt like there was someone else in your house, even when you knew there wasn't? A chronic stomachache and a picture that won't stay still pushes our hero to confront this someone and discovers the legend of Shmilove, the world first Telekinetic.
[By Tomer Hanuka, Assaf Hanuka, and Etgar Keret, b&w, Full Color Covers, 36 pages, $2.95 US. ISBN: 1-891867-24-5. The cover art is available on-line at: http://www.indyworld.com/pics/bipolar3.tif in TIFF format or at: http://www.indyworld.com/pics/bipolar3.jpg in JPEG format]

Bogus Dead TPB anthology
A scary treat for the Halloween season! Human corpses rise from the dead to devour the living! Within weeks, only a handful of people remain, fighting desperately to survive the zombies' inexhaustible appetite for human flesh. Forty-two of the world's best independent comic artists have fearlessly rallied to describe the events of mankind's horrific last days! Fans of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" films will love the blend of humor and terror employed in this anthology by cartoonists including Tom Hart, Jim Mahfood, James Kochalka, Ariel Bordeaux, Jennifer Daydreamer, Souther Salazar, Megan Kelso, David Lasky, Aleksandar Zograf, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Annable, Leela Corman, Jenny Zervakis, and dozens more!
[(Edited by Jerome Gaynor) Mature Readers, 144 pages, squarebound trade paperback, B&W, color covers; $9.95 US. ISBN: 1-891867-19-9. The cover art by Art Chantry is available on-line at: http://www.indyworld.com/pics/bogusdead.tif in TIFF (CMYK) format or http://www.indyworld.com/pics/bogusdead.jpg in JPEG (RGB) format. Sample pages of the book can be seen at: http://www.jeromanempire.com/images/comics/bd_sample3.gif http://www.jeromanempire.com/images/comics/bd_sample2.gif http://www.jeromanempire.com/images/comics/bd_sample1.gif]

OFFERED AGAIN: Bipolar #2
Junior looks at the tragedy of imagination through the eyes of a stepson with extraordinary abilities. Squeeze takes a drive to the extreme poles of malehood. Zina+me destroys a sexual fantasy by putting it in a relationship, and a new installment of Pizzeria Kamikaze: after committing suicide, Chaim starts reliving in a place where everybody else is already dead. He finds a day job (pizza) and a new friend. As routine gets to him, he bumps into his old roommate (who jumped out the window) and discovers something that will change the course of his death.
[By Tomer Hanuka and Assaf Hanuka b&w, Full Color Covers, 36 pages, $2.95 US.]

The official Alternative Comics website is: http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics

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For more information or requests, please contact publisher Jeff Mason, c/o Alternative Comics, 503 NW 37th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32609-2204; Phone: 352.373.6336; E-mail: jmason@indyworld.com.