Birdcage Bottom Books are one of our favourite US small press publishers here at Broken Frontier with their output of genuinely indie, experimental and alt comics typifying the kind of practice we exist to spotlight. With SPX imminent we have preview pages below from some of their festival-debuting books as well as the new edition of the DINKy Award-winning and Ignatz Award-nominated anthology Bottoms Up!.
Don’t forget that even if you’re not going to SPX this weekend that you can find out more about their publishing output on their site and shop here and follow them on Twitter here. You can also catch up with some past BBB coverage at Broken Frontier here. Find them on Table SPX W-10 this weekend.
A Lone Deer at the End of the World by D. Bradford Gambles
A Lone Deer At The End Of The World by D. Bradford Gambles is the story of a deer that wanders out of the woods and stumbles across the ruins of an abandoned mall. Inside, among the formerly grand structures and trappings of a forgotten society, a presence remains behind waiting to be uncovered.
The Complete Matinee Junkie: Five Years at the Movies by Jordan Jeffries
The Complete Matinee Junkie: Five Years At The Movies collects the entire run of Jordan Jeffries’ ongoing comic series, plus a full year of new material. Part autobiography, part cultural review, Matinee Junkie contains entries for every movie the author saw in theaters each year, with the complete collection spanning almost 250 movies over five years, from 2013-2017.
In-depth rants about bland cinematography and stories of nightmarish theater experiences combine with five years’ worth of autobiography, reflecting the way our own lives intersect with the stories we love to lose ourselves in.
Bottoms Up!
“BOTTOMS UP! True Tales of Hitting Rock-Bottom” is an anthology collecting real stories of bottoming out from alcoholism, drug dependency, sex addiction, body dysmorphia, pornography addiction and more. These stories have been adapted into comics by a team of incredibly talented and diverse cartoonists
Cover by Ben Passmore (left) and interior page by Sara Lautman (right)
Pages by Noah Van Sciver (left) and Daniel McCloskey (right)
Artists contributing include:
– Josh Bayer (title page)
– Haleigh Buck
– Kevin Budnik
– Josh Burggraf
– Max Clotfelter
– Peter S. Conrad
– Nate Doyle
– Rachel Dukes
– Chad Essley
– Mike Freiheit
– Tatiana Gill
– Danny Hellman (back cover)
– Jordan Jeffries
– Gideon Kendall
– Victor Kerlow
– Brendan Kiefer
– Sara Lautman
– Lizz Lunney
– Daniel McCloskey
– Chris Monday
– Fred Noland
– Adam Pasion
– Ben Passmore (front cover)
– Simon Petersen
– Summer Pierre
– John Porcellino
– Gillian Rhodes
– Matt Rota
– Kevin Scalzo
– Holly Simple
– Karl Stevens
– Michael Sweater
– Meghan Turbitt
– Noah Van Sciver
– Elaine M. Will
– Jess Worby
– George Wylesol
– Adam Yeater
– J.T. Yost
