Uncivilized Holiday Gift Guide 2025

Monday
by Andy Hartzell

Andy Hartzell’s Monday, begins on the second week of God’s Creation, the eighth day. A new entity looms over Eden, causing unease. Will this next-gen creature disrupt the established order? Eden’s first couple must intervene with their Maker before His latest Creation makes them redundant. Yet, they must be cautious; interfering with the creative process is a dangerous game.

Even in our hyper-technologized age, one of the oldest creation stories still resonates. It speaks to modern audiences haunted by specters of robots and Artificial Intelligence. Andy Hartzell’s provocative metaphysical slapstick comic, Monday, is a fable for our unstable age, a timeless, relevant narrative.

Only a few copies remain of the special gold embossed leatherette edition. A stunning looking graphic novel perfectly packaged for the Christmas holiday.

Womb Rider
by Emil Friis Ernst

To the winner belongs the glory! 

WOMB RIDER, the eponymous racer dashes through surreal, flesh-like environments, witnessing his competitors get taken out, one-by-one, in the quest for ultimate fame and glory. From the twisted mind of Emil Friis Ernst (DR. MURDER), WOMB RIDER is pedal-to-the-metal, no-holds-barred, nitrous-infused kinetic, sci-fi action and existential terror all in one package. 

Womb Rider’s custom Pantone color palette was inspired by the bright tones of RISO zines and the logo is executed with Holo Foil. An absolutely unique wild and comic. This is what print is meant to do. This can’t be done on screen.

The Sickness Vol. 1 Collection

The Comics Beat named The Sickness “among the best comics I’ve read this year, a truly cerebral and surprising horror comic that also serves as a strong example of the heights stories can hit in this medium. I absolutely loved this comic, and I can’t wait to read more.” This oversized collected edition contains issues 1-5 and has a color section for all the covers of this acclaimed series.

The Jungle Subscription by Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller

What’s a better present than one that keeps on giving? The Jungle subscription keeps on giving long after the holidays are over. This series follows on the heels of The Humans, the cult favorite Image series that followed the adventures of Ape gang! This nwe series is printed in glorious magazine format, styled on old-school Marvel magazines of the 70s and 80s, complete with newsprint paper, and eye melting visuals.

Ginseng Roots Complete Box Set by Craig Thompson

Drawn in two colors in Craig’s inimitable style, Ginseng Roots is an incredibly personal journey from small-town Wisconsin to a global odyssey to understand the medicinal ginseng plant’s history, mythology, commerce, and meaning. Ginseng Roots is Craig Thompson’s magnum opus! Gift the incredibly designed Ginseng Roots Box to store the 12-issue series on your shelf.

The Ginseng Roots Box set is a completely unique item. Not many copies remain and it will never be reprited. It contains the 12 origial comic books, a mini-comic, a sticker, and sturdy reinfored box.

Six Treasures of The Spiral by Matt Madden

Take a peek behind the curtain of the genius behind Ex Libris. The stories in Six Treasures of The Spiral masterfully demonstrate Matt Madden’s varied narrative games and experiments. This book contains an extensive afterword that offers insights into how he turned the shackles of complex constraints into a source of inspiration and ingenuity. If you want to explore new creative challenges, you’ll leave this book eager to work on forging your narrative jewels. It is a perfectly companion to Matt’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.

First There Was Chaos by Joel Priddy

Greek myths have inspired stories and art for millennia. Yet, some stories and characters remain unfamiliar. First There Was Chaos explores the formless, primordial, and extraordinary forces that preceded the Olympian gods. These tales of Creation illustrate the creative process, giving cosmic form to the universal struggles of all creators. Based on Hesiod‘s Theogony and other classic sources, First There Was Chaos synthesizes fragmentary myths into a compelling narrative accessible to a contemporary audience.

First There Was Chaos syn is also one of the most unique books we’ve created. Take a look at the incredible accordeon fold-out that is part of the story.

Evil Eyes Sea
by Ozge Samanci

Winner of the Cartoonist Studio Prize! The Guardian named Ozge Samanci’s Evil Eyes Sea one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2024! In Guardian’s own words, “Two Istanbul students investigate the death of a friend who plunged into the Bosphorus in a Cadillac. It’s a fine mix of Tintin-style adventure and social commentary, complete with smelly dorm rooms, puffed-up gangsters, and Scuba diving.

The Voyeurs
by Gabrielle Bell

Don’t miss your chance to own a slice of Uncivilized’s history with our first-ever graphic novel, The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell. This masterpiece launched Uncivilized into the world and firmly established Gabrielle Bell as a premier memoir cartoonist. Take this opportunity to gift a piece of our legacy. Limited quantities remain.

Cannonball by K. Wroten

K. Wroten’s Cannonball, winner of the Lammy Award for Best LGBTQ Graphic Novel, has become an LGBTQ classic! Lambda Literary writes, “Wroten goes far beyond simply identifying the labor conditions that threaten the much-needed work queer artists do to produce new narratives and viable mythologies to sustain LGBTQ+ people. This is also a more universal story of exploring the complexities of human psychology: in line with Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother and Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Wroten’s story is about a person trying to control extremes of feeling and understand their source.”

Draw Stronger
by Kriota Willberg

Draw Stronger is essential if you draw comics, aspire to draw comics, or know someone who does. We often perceive drawing as a non-physical labor. But intense drawing sessions will tax your body in unexpected ways. Kriota encourages us to see drawing as the intense physical activity you must train for. Power up and prevent aches, pains, and more serious injuries!

An indespensible book for any artist struggling with pain or one looking to prevent it in the future.

Unended
by Josh Bayer

Josh Bayer’s inky line is legendary. It is influenced by Raymond Pettibon’s punk LP sleeves as much as Anselm Kiefer’s haunted expressionism or Jack Kirby’s monumental and exhilarating action. Tangled textures and kaleidoscopic color boldly fuse on the page into comic book semiotics, flights of grandeur, and tangents inside tangents. Josh Bayer stitches scattered memories into surrealistic episodes permeated with dream logic. Nominated for the Ignatz Award, Unended may be a Promethean journey towards fiery triumph and emotional closure, or will it be a doomed quest that remains unending? Jonathan Lethem said it best, “heart-rending and sense-flooding, gorgeous, tragic, generous and vulnerable – Unended is an artwork I’ll never forget.”

Museum of Mistakes by Julia Wertz

Julia Wertz’s hilarious antics, documented in her long-running, long-out-of-print mini-comic series, The Fart Party, are legendary. Museum of Mistakes collects anything and everything that is and was The Fart Party. PLUS: numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains, and more. This massive 528-page tome is a must-have for all fans of Julia Wertz’s comics and real-life stories that make us laugh and cry at the sheer absurdity of existence.

Old Caves
by Tyler Landry

Tyler Landry’s haunting story won the Doug Wright Award—Canada’s top comics prize—for the best small-press book. Take a peek through a frost-covered window at isolation, obsession, and the slow erosion of relationships. Landry renders the austere cold landscapes of Canada’s north in masterfully composed brushy black-and-white art.

The best way to experience the dark wintery weather is by reading the Old Caves by a roaring holiday fire.