International comics in the DOMINO shop

We just added a bunch of new comics to the DOMINO shop, including a lot of KUS products, all the way from Latvia as well as cool art zines from England—not to mention zines and minis from all the far reaches of the USA.

Go check em out!

Mothers News in Every Order

Hey Domino customers. We have a stack of the newest issue of MOTHERS NEWS sitting here, and with each order to the DOMINO shop, we’ll throw in a copy for free until we’re done chipping away at the pile.

I’ve said it before, but I really admire what Mothers News is doing. A newspaper about an arts/music scene written by and for locals in Providence, RI but done with enough care and passion that it becomes relevant to everyone.

Back from Vacation

I’ve been on vacation in the Bay Area, visiting friends and family. Flying back to ‘the big apple’ today. Here are some previews of Molly Colleen O’Connell’s Difficult Loves—coming soon from DOMINO

Store Redesign!

The DOMINO SHOP has been redesigned! REFRESH YOUR BROWSERS. There are also tons of new items added (including a bunch more KUS! comics from Latvia).

Go check it out…everything is easier to browse and more organized—we have over 70 items, including mini-comics, prints, anthologies, and of course our official DOMINO publications.

The redesign comes courtesy of Mack Pauly of Space Face Books. Mack was kind enough to overhaul the sprawling site and get it in the shape the work inside it deserves. Mack runs Space Face Books, a publisher we here at DOMINO are really excited about. Their first book, Wild Glass Look back by R. Clint Colburn, will be available from DOMINO soon. But for now why not go over to Space Face books themselves and get a copy from them and check out their other projects. Rat Hex, which will feature some art by our own Jesse McManus, looks so good.

Inkstuds Interview

I was interviewed about all things DOMINO over at the INKSTUDS radio program—go and have a listen.

My Friend Perry at Megazine Magazine

You can now read my comic My Friend Perry in its entirety over at Megazine Magazine, a great new art magazine edited by Loren Kramer. Glad this story is finally out there for people to read!

Notebooks and drawings

Here are some recent drawings from my in progress comic ‘Freddy’s Dead’

And some stand alone images—more cover ideas

And finally, my comic My Friend Perry will debut on Sunday over at MEGAZINE, a new online arts publication. Here are some of the script pages for that story, written in a tiny notebook.

Check us out in Mothers News

Jesse McManus (of Spider Monkey) drew a cool ad for DOMINO that you can see this month in everyones favorite underground newspaper MOTHERS NEWS

Domino customers of the near future might get lucky and have some Mothers News freebies in their orders….

Face Man and Difficult Loves Previews

FACE MAN is still available for pre-orders—it’s taking Clara Bessijelle longer then expected to finish it, mainly because she’s making each page into a mini-masterpiece, like this:

Two good reasons to pre-order FACE MAN—everyone who pre-orders will get a signed copy and a small original drawing within! The book will hopefully be printed by May and without-a-doubt in peoples hands in time for MOCCA.

Also in time for MOCCA will be Molly Colleen O’connell ‘s new book Difficult Loves. Here’s some thrilling in progress photos fort your enjoyment.

Dark Tomato ‘one of the best comics of 2011’

Dark Tomato by Sakura Maku was named one of the best comics of 2011 by Rob Clough.

Dark Tomato #1, by Sakura Maku. This is the debut book from Austin English’s new publishing concern Domino Books, and it’s an auspicious start for him. Maku is firmly in the Immersive camp of comics, mixing traditional narrative, collage, lettering for decorative purposes and poetic language to create a dizzying array of images that nonetheless draw in the reader’s eye. The story concerns a subway train driver in New York who slips into and out of hallucinatory, dreamlike experiences that she can’t quite explain. Make fuses Snow White, Prince, high fashion, and the energy of a cityscape that alternates between piercing dissonance and remarkably fluid harmony. Indeed, if one can describe a comic as “musical”, this comic certainly fits that bill. It’s not just because of the frequent use of song lyrics, but rather it’s due to the way Maku uses an almost staccato pattern of images to create rhythm while her figure work is sort of the tune–scribbly and liquid on the page. Maku flips foreground and background, dreaming and waking, and the mundane & the fantastic–often in the span of a single panel. Despite demanding that the reader approach the comic on its terms, Dark Tomato rewards the reader with a cohesive, fascinating narrative that is just beginning with this first issue.