Microcosm publishing dez 2013 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stories of survival and recovery from a wide spectrum of contributors teach you ways to taking care of your body and mind when the government and corporate healthcare systems are doing their best to make you sick, broke, and crazy. Thirty-seven personal essays directed at helping the reader learn and cope with their own issues, cover topics from abortion to ablation, depression to drinking and drug use, abusive relationships to veganism, coming out as gay to body image and eating disorders, marathon running to recovering from a sprained ankle. Alive With Vigor! has a special focus on queer, youth, and transgendered people and recognizing different medical, cultural, and emotional needs.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - By now you know the drill: Ben White draws his life everyday in 3 comic panels. This was his first book, collecting quite a few various zines. After describing dozens of various Snakepit titles I'm going to defer to the wisdom of Jimmi Payne's Punk Zine, Taken individually, each strip resembles what a friend would say if you asked what they had done that day. Ben sifts through the minutiae of life as well as the full experience of time in a day. This is different than James Kochalka's work as there is no pretense at narrative or point. The narratives in Snakepit open up on the macro level. If Snakepit is to be read on the toilet, a mere bowel movement is enough time to live months through the protagonist's eyes. Patterns emerge and story arcs materialize and years of common actions load into a highly concentrated snapshot that wakes you up to the ongoing machinations of life beyond your present day. This has led many to label Snakepit an existential text. Introduction about doing cocaine by Aaron Cometbus.…