Satyr #8
Reviewed by R. Krauss
Satyr #8
Edited by Jim Main
Main Enterprises, Winter 2008
32 b&w pages, plus color cover
8.5" x 11" comic, POD
$3.95 (includes postage)
Website: mainenterprises.ecrater.com
Reviewed by R. Krauss
This is editor Main's catch-all anthology comic. It's filled with off-kilter stories and wacky humor. The lead entry is a soft-boiled private eye yarn written by Sam Gafford and drawn by John Lambert. The city's most beautiful women are disappearing until a down-on-his-luck PI jumps into the thick of things.
Bebop returns with another installment of his Wild Strawberries. This time out it's all about budding relationships, chance encounters, and missed connections.
Jennifer Walker provides Random Acts of Autos, a sort of diary comic about the cars in her life. Much as I enjoyed the other comics in this book, I think this one was my favorite. There's just something about that love/hate relationship with cars that strikes a nearly universal chord.
The Limacher brothers, Al and Rick teamed up with writer James McKenney for a bizarre mashup of sword and sorcery and robotics.
And lastly, Jack Bertram returns with a cantankerous tribute to the late George Carlin.
All said, this is another fine issue of Satyr. If you like zany humor in your small press comics, you'll find plenty here to enjoy.
The book includes a pair of color paintings by Alex Nino in the front and back inside covers, front cover cartoons and design by Dan W. Taylor, a back cover illustration by Hugo Award winner Brad W. Foster, and production work by Sam Gafford. Mature readers only.
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Reviewer Bio
R. Krauss reviews small press and mini comics on Midnight Fiction, Poopsheet Foundation and Comic Related.
Name: Richard Krauss
email: arkay@midnightfiction.com
Been reading comics: since I started reading Marvel comics in Junior High School.
Review Bio: After several years I discovered titles like Zap and Bijou at a headshop and was seduced by the freedom and variety they offered. When the new-wave comix era sprouted from the seeds of the undergrounds, I quickly joined the ranks of other struggling cartoonists with phenomenally low print runs. After almost a decade of small press comix, I retired and made a solemn vow never to return. Several years later the Internet happened and over time many of my favorite new-wave cartoonists got online. The bug bit again and I started exploring the new crop of small press cartoonists. Today's explosion of small press comics is more exciting than any time I've ever seen.
Favorites: Papercutter, Not My Small Diary, Slam Bang, Comic Eye, stuff from Main Enterprises and Weird Muse, to name a few.
Website: MidnightFiction.com
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