Birdcage Backside Books is shutting down publishing
The ranks of indie comics publishers have shrunk but once more, as Birdcage Backside Books has introduced they are going to stop publishing, as writer J.T. Yost has undergone “intense private upheaval.”
In a newsletter sent to contacts, Yost introduced that he could be stepping away after the Spring publishing season, and Daniel Whitfield would proceed operating delivery and success.
Along with being a publisher of note – maybe finest identified for anthologies like Digestate, Bottoms Up and Too Powerful to Die – BBB was an necessary distributor for different small press comics publishers, and it’ll proceed in that capability, not less than considerably, beneath Whitfield.
Within the electronic mail, Yost defined extra of how the corporate would evolve:
I haven’t been capable of finding somebody prepared to take over the a number of roles I inhabit, however I’m nonetheless holding out hope somebody will in order that BBB can proceed in some kind (please attain out if ). We had a ton of outstanding comics within the pipeline, so hopefully these will nonetheless be printed (Fieldmouse Press shall be publishing November Garcia’s Full and Utter Malarkey!)
I’m trying to find a extra dependable/steady supply of revenue, so if you understand of any job openings that might make the most of my talent set, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I’m hoping to proceed working inside publishing (doesn’t must be comics), however I’m open to different alternatives as nicely (particularly if it’s a vegan or non-profit firm!).
I’d like to get the remainder of the BBB publications at present in our basement delivered to Daniel in California, so if any of you occur to be driving from NYC to California (close to L.A.), I’d be completely happy to pay you to load up your trunk.
Thanks a lot for being what I truthfully contemplate my prolonged household. I’ve had so many great interactions with lots of you at exhibits, on social media, or by electronic mail, and I can’t thanks sufficient!
The tip of Birdcage Backside Books follows the same introduced wind downs for Peow Studios and ShortBox final 12 months, and Koyama Press earlier than that. Working an indie small press is really a labor of affection, and like being in an indie band, and ultimately actual life considerations meet up with individuals.
However happening on a excessive be aware, the e-mail additionally included information of BBB’s ultimate season, which, like different current books, shall be run on Crowdfundr.
STEADY ROLLIN’: Preacher’s Child, Black Punk, and Pedaling Papa
by Fred Noland
Beginning as a hardscrabble misfit and minister’s son within the Bible Belt, adopted by a stint as a suburban So-Cal Black punk, and onward to bicycle-obsessed, graphic novelist and pop in Oakland, Regular Rollin’ is a portrait of the creator in time-lapse. His memoir consists of vignettes, uncovering his origins as an artist, exploring relationships previous and current, ruminating on trauma and loss, and in the end discovering his place within the circulate of life.
Noland employs kinds that seize the essence of the second and dialogue that displays the multi-layered complexities and challenges of communication. Regular Rollin’ is an autobiographical anthology stitched collectively by years of labor throughout kinds that vary from the sharp and detailed renderings for his New Yorker items to dreamier representations from his childhood. His reflections are at turns absurd, bitingly humorous, and poignant. With its investigation the into the cycle of life from the Earlier than Instances to The New Regular, Regular Rollin’ paperwork a world and a life in transition
6” x 8”, 220 pages. $20
Full-color covers B+w on cream paper with 32-page full-color insert at starting on white paper. Good-bound GN
THE COLA POP CREEMEES: Opening Act
by Desmond Reed
Dramedy has by no means seemed so… squiggly.
The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act is the debut graphic novel by Desmond Reed, and options seven tales starring the 5 members of the eponymous psychedelic rock band, The Cola Pop Creemees.
Snicker and cry as you witness Ralph Jonathan, Mona Gertrude, Gil Christopher, Henrietta Susan, and Wallace T.J. sort out melancholy, anxiousness, trauma, household, heartbreak, jobs, dad and mom, reminiscences, dependancy, medication, alcohol, stress, comics, obsession, loss, creativity, music, college, unrequited love, psychological well being, existential unhappiness, and extra!
6” x 8”, 240 pages. $15
Full-color covers with b+w inside. Good-bound GN
Flop Sweat #7
by Lance Ward
Flop Sweat is an ongoing serialization of Lance Ward’s autobiographical comics organized chronologically. Earlier self-published collections of those comics had been featured in The Finest American Comics. Ward’s life has been rife with pitfalls: abandonment, dependancy, psychological sickness, sexual assault, arrest, tried suicide, and even a loss of life expertise (not “near-death”, he was clinically deceased!). But, by all of it he has in some way maintained a positivity about and loyalty to his artwork, even after crushing his drawing hand!
In situation #7: After fulfilling his psychiatric dedication, securing his first residence, and coping with reminiscence loss resulting from psychological sickness, Lance finds himself within the make use of of an ex-rock star and lands a gig as a radio present co-host!
5.5” x 8.5”, 24 pages. $6
Full-color covers and inside. Saddle-stitched
Flop Sweat #8
by Lance Ward
In situation #8: Working at a vinyl file retailer and co-host of a Heavy Metallic radio present, Lance struggles with the darker facet of the enterprise. Additionally contains the story of Lance’s coronary heart assault, loss of life, and resurrection!
5.5” x 8.5”, 32 pages. $6
Full-color covers and inside. Saddle-stitched
