Rich Tommaso

Rich Tommaso

Rich Tommaso
Miriam #1
For Mature Readers; Deluxe Oversized (7-5/8” x 11-1/2”); 24 pages; $4.95;
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-934460-01-6; 10-digit ISBN: 1-934460-01-X;
Diamond Item Code: JUN073198; August 2007.

Miriam Capaldi and Peter Martinelli have been friends since the third grade. In every issue of “Miriam” you will slowly see just how their friendship progresses (or regresses) over a period of nearly twenty years. Each issue contains three installments of continuing stories taken from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Issue one begins with our heroes in college, honing their skills and readying themselves for the “real world”...or not. The second deals with the two in their teenage years living in a very drab and ugly 1980’s New Jersey. And, lastly the third installment finds us at the meeting place of Miriam and Peter, at Peter’s home, back in 1977, when they were just seven years old. Read every issue of Miriam and you can be glad.

"…Miriam is cartoonist Rich Tommaso’s quietest work yet, and I think it may be his best-looking as well. A close character study chopped into three separate stories separated by time, Miriam displays the virtue of paying attention, the way some cartoonists as they grow in skill trade in pushing characters through energetic paces like an animator for slowly waiting for the object of their attention to move, to give them something, as if the mind’s eye were a camera."
— Tom Spurgeon

"…Rich Tommaso’s cartooning possesses an innate and confident snap that grabs the eye and won't let it go. Rich seems to get better with every comic as Miriam certainly attests."
— James Sturm

Miriam #1 sample pages
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Rich Tommaso is the author of such comics as “Clover Honey”, “The Horror Of Collier County”, “8 ½ Ghosts”, and the very controversial, “Perverso!” He has been published by Fantagraphics Books, Top Shelf, and Dark Horse Comics. This fall Hyperion Books will be publishing his new graphic novel, “Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow” written by James Sturm, director of The Center For Cartoon Studies, where Rich also teaches from time to time. He now resides in NYC.

8½ Ghosts PERVERSO! Miriam