“Van Gieson manages to blend a lifetime’s worth of influences into one heady brew that is enjoyable as an individual entry as well as part of what will hopefully be an equally frantic whole.”
Rob Clough reviews Eel Mansions #1 by Derek Van Gieson.
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Derek Van Gieson‘s Eel Mansions got reviewed recently by Thirteen Minutes. In our humble opinion, they totally got it right:
This book is a little bat-shit crazy, in all the right ways of course.
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Eel Mansions is a compelling mélange of Duran Duran references, occult government conspiracy, hipster lingo, and strong humor, like nothing you’ve ever seen before. It’s a wholly unique sound and aesthetic from Derek Van Gieson. What I think makes the title succeed so boldly is that it’s able to subvert archetypes, simple ones like the lantern-jawed high school jocks who turn to law enforcement or military service so people will give them the respect they could never genuinely earn on their own, or reclamation of the “hipster” designation, but also more complex ones. Even aloof arcane archetypes are made totally self-aware and grounded in reality instead of becoming lost in their own mythologies.
Read the entire review here.
So we’re getting really excited about the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival! This is easily one of our favorite shows of the year and we’re grateful to be part of it this year! Here’s what we’ve got prepared for you: We’re going to have a table full of great cartoonists. We’re going to be hanging out at our table (Upstairs #23) for most of the day:
- Gabrielle Bell
- James Romberger
- Jon Lewis
- and our publisher/cartoonist Tom Kaczynski.
We’re debuting 3 (three!) new books at the show:
- True Swamp: Choose Your Poison by Jon Lewis (available now!)
- Post York by James Romberger, with a flexi disc single by Crosby! (pre-order!)
- Eel Mansions by Derek Van Gieson (pre-order!)
- Our publisher/cartoonist, Tom Kaczynski, will also be spend some time at the Fantagraphics table (from 2:30 to 3:30 pm more info here!) to sign copies of his brand new-can’t-get-it-anywhere-else-until-December-book: Beta Testing the Apocalypse (available for pre-order here).
- Gabrielle Bell will be signing copies of The Voyeurs which was recently named one of the best Graphic Novels of the year by Publishers Weekly!
We’ll be upstairs at table 23! See you there!
