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Poppa Bears – Part 1
Poppa Bears is a family comedy created by cartoonist couple Ryan Alexander-Tanner and Katie Rose Leon. This first story comes in 3 parts, appearing in monthly installments exclusively on Trip City!...
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Just Super: The Gentleman No More
After the villains, come the artists. After the artists, come the bars. Then the coffee shops and boutique stores. Once the boutique stores arrive, here come the heroes! Capes and cowls are just...
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Sons of Ba’al
I want you to listen to the song while you read the comic, because there’s really no such thing as liner notes anymore. So go do that and come back here, and I’ll tell you a thing or two. Welcome...
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Rick Parker: South Orange Maplewood Artists Studio Tour
It started with a video that toyed with our expectations a little. Video Rick informed us that while growing up, he discovered that the world was not a “perfect place”, but that “things on paper”...
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SCHMUCK PREVIEW: JEW-DEATH
My auto-bio “Comix Neurotica” series SCHMUCK was planned as to be dolled out one episode per month for one year. Unfortunately, life intervenes and freelance artists get other paying gigs and...
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SCHMUCK 4: JEW-DEATH
Read past installments SCHMUCK 1: Beer, Babes and Bowel Movements THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Mein Roommates SCHMUCK 2: The Burning THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: The Lap-Date SCHMUCK 3: The Hook-Up THE SCHMUCK...
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SO BUTTONS: SO RACIST
Hi folks! This story is probably as “dirty” as it gets for So Buttons. This might also be my most faux-tobiographical piece. (and Gabrielle Bell could be the current champ of that crown. Check out...
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LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS AT JIM HANLEY’S UNIVERSE
On Wednesday July 25th at 6PM, Jim Hanley’s Universe hosts LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN COMICS authors Christopher Irving and Seth Kushner, plus an assembly of top notch comic book...
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SO BUTTONS: So I Went to L.A
For Issue #3 of So Buttons, I went a different route. I wanted an issue to collect the couple of fiction comics I had written for horror anthologies Arcana’s “Dark Horrors 2” and Accent UK’s...
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SH3
Spinning out of the Americans UK comic book series, SH3 is an android who navigates a hellish dystopia of her own making, attempting to rebuild a world she has helped destroy, and save humanity from...
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SO BUTTONS: SO/UNDANCE
Ah, Sundance… Channel. My first real paying job in the film/tv industry after my $5 a day internship at October Films (a sincere R.I.P. for the great Bingham Ray). The crazy fluke of that Sundance...
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SO BUTTONS: SO MIGHTY
I can’t tell you what an honor it was for me that Fred Hembeck agreed to do this story. I love Fred’s work. From his strips in The Comics Buyers Guide to his FantaCo comics, to The Fantastic Four...
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CulturePOP: STOYA
Click below to listen to Seth Kushner’s candid one-on-one interview with Stoya
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Gonad the Ballbarian
Introducing Gonad the Ballbarian, written by Jef UK, with art by Blake Sims! If you’ve spent your entire life pining for barbarian adventure fiction as told by a dick joke, then pine no more, friend....
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Before Time Fucker: Wreck’d ‘Em!
A long while back I had the idea that I should develop my worst ideas into hypothetical book proposals. It was a personal challenge to treat questionable content as base matter for an alchemical...
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SCHMUCK 5 Preview
The latest and fifth installment of SCHMUCK, “A Hairy Situation” is, as always, an awkward and personal story based upon events from my life a decade ago. It was one of the first stories I wrote and...
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PODCAST 19: DANIEL JOHNSTON + AMERICANS UK
This week on the Trip City Podcast, Jef UK and filmmaker Amy Finkel talk to legendary musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston about his first ever graphic novel, Space Ducks: An Inifinite Comic...
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SCHMUCK 5: A HAIRY SITUATION
Read past installments SCHMUCK 1: Beer, Babes and Bowel Movements THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Mein Roommates SCHMUCK 2: The Burning THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: The Lap-Date SCHMUCK 3: The Hook-Up THE SCHMUCK...
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SO BUTTONS: THE BIG RED ONE
So… I can barely believe it, but Sam Fuller’s wife, Christa, read this story. And liked it. And shared it with their daughter, Samantha, Lee Marvin’s wife, and the other cast members of the movie....
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Before Time Fucker: Pep-Tide!
Welcome back to another installment of Before Time F*cker where I air out more creative dirty laundry in the form of ill-advised hypothetical book proposals. Pep-tide! began like most of these…with...
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Before Time Fucker: Wonder Toe!
Had I only a smidgen of the “Happy Wonder of the Foot Wisdom”, I might have known better than to concoct a story and cover like Wonder Toe! But I didn’t and so we have another hypothetical graphic...
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SCHMUCK 6 preview
The latest and sixth installment of SCHMUCK, “The One” is, as always, an awkward and personal story based upon events from my life a decade ago. This particular episode is the longest of the series...
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SCHMUCK 6: THE ONE
Read past installments SCHMUCK 1: Beer, Babes and Bowel Movements THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: Mein Roommates SCHMUCK 2: The Burning THE SCHMUCK DIARIES: The Lap-Date SCHMUCK 3: The Hook-Up THE SCHMUCK...
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THE MANY WORLDS OF INDIE COMICS
For me, comics used to mean the superhero books I had grown up stealing from my brothers or the mood-rich Vertigo type comics I had started reading a few years before. I was convinced from my “return”...
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TRIP CITY Creators in CREATOR OWNED HEROES #7
CREATOR OWNED HEROES #7, out in December, features contributions from all four TRIP CITY curators. Jeffrey Burandt writes and Dean Haspiel draws the horror comic BLOOD + BRAINS, Chris Miskiewicz,...
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SCHMUCK 7 preview
The latest and sixth installment of SCHMUCK, “The Ex-Factor” is, as always, an awkward and personal story based upon events from my life a decade ago. This particular episode deals with my avatar,...
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SCHMUCK 7: The Ex-Factor
George Schall: 26 years old, born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, decided to get into comics little more than two years ago. Illustrated Hector Lima’s script for Maurício de Souza Productions MSP+50...
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JUST SUPER: BIBBIN’S BODEGA
After the villains, come the artists. After the artists, come the bars. Then the coffee shops and boutique stores. Once the boutique stores arrive, here come the heroes! Capes and cowls are just...
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SUCKERS 1
When Corey White was four years old, his mother told him his father had died and left them with nothing. When he was eighteen, his father told him different. But then, his dad’s a con man, so who’s he...
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Dino Fight UK
In possible memoriam of Time Bum, nay, of all of history itself (if the Mayan calendar is to be completely misinterpreted believed), we’re running some of Time Bum’s original appearances up until the...
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SUCKERS 2
When Corey White was four years old, his mother told him his father had died and left them with nothing. When he was eighteen, his father told him different. But then, his dad’s a con man, so who’s he...
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SCHMUCK 8 PREVIEW
The latest and eighth installment of SCHMUCK, “The Double Date” is, as always, an awkward and personal story based upon events from my life a decade ago. This particular episode deals with my avatar,...
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SCHMUCK 8: The Double Date
Stephen DeStefano began his career as a professional cartoonist at the age of 15. He’s drawn the comic book adventures of SpongeBob and Mickey Mouse, has been the chief licensing artist on Popeye the...
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Yo Gabba Gabardine
Continuing our countdown to the final episode of TIME BUM, we present to you another one of his many appearances in Americans UK comix, this time in the punk-glam-rock adventure that is Yo Gabba...
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SCHMUCK 9 PREVIEW
The latest and ninth installment of SCHMUCK, “Warning Signs” is, as always, an awkward and personal story based upon events from my life a decade ago. This particular episode chronicles the beginning,...
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SCHMUCK 9: WARNING SIGNS
Skuds Mckinley is a Professional comic book artist and Illustrator based in Doylestown Pa. His first Self Published comic work, I’ll Take You To The Moon And Leave You There Vol.1 was met with...
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JOHN LOVES WAYNE
JOHN LOVES WAYNE is the best punk, western, rock song about gay, cowboy lovers ever. This was my second attempt to make a “comic book, music video,” or more accurately, a “graphic lyric sheet,” and as...
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RETRO SLAM JAM #1
Step into the ring with 1989′s most outrageous wrestlers in this mat-pounding, head-stomping, comix-wrasslin’ adventure! In this episode, it’s class warfare between Gator and The Natural. Can ol’...
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FREE WEBCOMIX WEEKEND
In honor of Free Comic Book Day on May 4th, TRIP CITY would like to draw your attention to some of the great FREE creator-owned comix we offer, including; Billy Dogma by Dean Haspiel The Red Hook by...
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SCHMUCK 10: BOSTON HOPE
Leland Purvis is an artist and craftsman currently working in graphite and pigments on paper, using pictures to tell stories. His major works in recent years have been graphic novels, historical...
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SCHMUCK 11: The Lapdate
Read past installments of SCHMUCK Christa Cassano is a Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator who recently came into comics by way of a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Christa is a...
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The Red Hook
THE RED HOOK is Dean Haspiel’s love letter to Brooklyn, NY and homage to the truncated storytelling and limited color palette of the Golden Age of superhero pulp noir. A 21st Century wink to the 1960s...
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SCHMUCK 12: THE PARTY
Jon Allen grew up in Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn. He is currently working on the third and final part of his graphic novel, Vacationland. His comics are distributed online by Secret Acres....
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SCHMUCK 13: Night at the Museum
Noah Van Sciver was born in 1984 in New Jersey. He first came to readers’ attention with his comic book series Blammo, which earned him an Ignatz award nomination in 2010. His work has appeared in the...
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SCHMUCK 14: SIZE 11
Nathan Schreiber left the fashion industry in 2008 to focus on comics full time. His comic Power Out won a 2009 Xeric award and has been nominated for an Eisner and multiple Harvey awards. In 2012 he...
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SCHMUCK 15: RAISING THE BAR
Nick Bertozzi is the Harvey Award and Ignatz Award-winning author of LEWIS & CLARK (First Second) and THE SALON (St Martin’s Press), a graphic novel about Picasso and magical absinthe, and the...
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SCHMUCK 17: Discotheque
“SCHMUCK has a heart underneath its gritty crude input from main character Adam Kessler’s friends, a belief that love will find you in the end.”– Hannah Means Shannon, The Beat “While SCHMUCK is...
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I, APE-MAN
Read the comic while you listen to the tune, so as to fully experience the post-punk-apocalyptic might that is, “I, Ape-Man.” Then come back here for a minute, I’ve got a couple of things I want to...
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The Titans Of Tyranny
Read the comic while you listen to the demo version of the song. Consider this two exclusives in one! I rarely release demos, and this comic-book-lyric-sheet is poised to become a...
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